I've never heard of a course starting on a Friday anyway?!?!?!
Courses normally started on day 1 of a pay period (monday) or somewhere close to that. If the previous course started on 9 Jul then this course is also only three weeks behind. This too is a little unusual as QF used to like having the full four weeks between them to allow one lot to get out of the ground school and into the sim as the next lot started ground school.