LH2
Yes I do work in southern Spain and I do not wish to state the school that I work for. The experiences that I talk about come from one of my colleagues who stated that having NO multi engine experience at all was put in the sim on his first day there without any briefing at all. In the climb out the instructor failed an engine on him and then started laughing at him when it all went horribly wrong.
The other was one of my students who went there to do his multi engine rating, he told me that there was no ASYM done at all. The entine course was spent flying between Malaga and La Aquaxia to do circuits and his instructor just told him how to deal with an engine failure without actually practicing one.
This is what these people told me directly. Based on this information and my first hand experience which includes the selection of a suitable school for my Multi Engine Instructor Rating, where one of the schools that I looked at in Spain told me that we could get it bashed out in a weekend (It subsequently took the best part of 2 weeks part time to complete it in the minimum hours) and the fact that I recently spoke with someone about an instructors job at another school outside of Spain. They told me in no uncertain terms that they did not hire people who had trained in Spain (which I did not) due to the poor quality of instruction received.
So this is just my opinion based on the information that I have received, maybe these were isolated cases and maybe not.
I think that it is so hard to find the best way to do your training, if I could go back to the start knowing what I know now there would be a million things that I would have done differently. In the end however, it has got me on the way to where I want to be and I've had a damn good time along the way, plus I don't have to sit in an office anymore selling mortgages and insurance which is a bonus!!
To the original poster: Good luck in whatever you choose and I hope you end up having as much fun as I do!!