Kingston university offer Aircraft Engineering as a three year Hon degree with the B1 licence. Many graduates are joining us and are excellent being both practical and technically knowledgeable. Employed as B1 or B2 they are very competent and enthusiastic and I feel that aircraft maintenance will have an even more professional workforce as a result.
I hold a B1 and an ATPL and both require a lot of study and hard work so in my opinion we are the same but British society does not agree with me and never will!