Genghis
Your original query refers to an 'aviation course'. Most if not all UK universities currently offer aeronautical engineering; avionics; or mechanical engineering with aeronautics degrees. None of which I would consider, with or without a PPL, to be aviation degrees.
Question - are you proposing a new degree, or do you mean 'aeronautical engineering' when you say 'aviation'? Not being pedantic, but the distinction is an important one.