well to be honest its up to the individual person what role of work they'd like and what exams they do and i fully agree that maybe the two years is short especially fellas going connying,but then again the good people from there have good reputations becaused they worked hard up the ladder and gained good experience.
so my opinion,advice to the person who originated the topic is to stay away from aaae because of what i do know about the place,im taking nothing away from their training methods etc but thats my opinion,if you dont like it after 2 and a quarter yrs easy to leave and still have a qualification,leave after 2 and a quarter years in a 4 yr apprenticeship you have nothing.