I was one of the approach radar controllers at GLA on Friday, and to my knowledge, not one of us (at least in the afternoon) said "report established on the inbound 044 radial".
The standard phrase we use for the VOR/DME approach (which is not uncommon to do at EGPF) is "Turn left / right heading xxx, report established inbound runway 05"
If it happened in the morning, it is possible that they were doing some training and the trainee had looked at the plates and seen 044 as the inbound track and got a little confused but no doubt this was pointed out by the mentor.