Well I can't speak for other units but around LACC, most people think it's an absolute joke. A place where you have to go and dodge bullets so that you make it to a unit for some real training. Staffing a college with people ready for retirement (in fact with people who HAVE retired) is no way to train controllers of the future to cope with record traffic levels. It should be a centre of excellence with individual trainings needs adapted to. Not one course/method fits all.
Apparently quite a lot of foundation course have just failed oral boards. How can such a high number be failing? Because some people are determined to 'catch you out' rather than find out what you know! I know some people who have been chopped after failing an oral board over random questions that people here at LACC don't know the answer to! Including aircraft recognition questions on an AREA course. Aircraft performance is fair enough but recognition?? They all have 1 star/cross followed by 5 trails and a TDB at the side of it!