It did involve recover from unusual attitudes etc etc. but no spin. Bearing in mind I had the same instructor for what I did of the PPL course who had covered spinning with me about 5 months prior and covered spinning with me previously. Shows how gash civvy world is im afraid! I always feel under a greater workload in civvy land due to the, how can you put it...lower airmanship standards of many pilots; just in the circuit alone; and out in the big wide world im afraid it's even worse.
To keep this on topic, spinning in full should be taught to every PPL stude. Ijust can't believe that there are people out there with licenses who have never recovered from a spin or even seen what one looks like. Not to mention the people that think they might go and 'try' some aeros
Like some guy at GWC as few years back who stuffed a Robin in.
And foxmouth, I agree wholly with you - recovery from the vertical, inverted and other unusual attitudes is far more important. Safety in the air is paramount, perfection comes through safe practise over time.