Many colleges in UK offer courses which are not what they are cracked up to be.
The outcome of any EASA B Category Licence course, whether or not it's wrapped up in another qualification, MUST be a Basic Training Certificate, issued by a Part-147 approved Basic Training organisation. The licence "promised" by some Colleges only comes after the required amount of work experience can be demonstrated, which they fail to point out.
To qualify for that, the course must include all the Practical Training and the OJT, with the OJT being done in a Part 145 approved MRO, with a proper structured OJT programme, under proper instructors and assessors. The college or course provider must be able to guarantee this from the outset, otherwise it may well not be there when needed.
The primary provider itself must be Part 147-approved and not covered by another company's approval with some kind of mutual back-scratching arrangement, with no effective oversight on the quality of what is delivered.
With those critieria in mind, most of the courses offered by Further Education Colleges as "EASA Cat B" courses are a waste of money. I'm not talking about Foundation Degree courses here; they are a different animal altogether.
Not all are bad; there are 2 genuinely good-value courses on offer at present in the UK. Those two do not include one which evidently seeks to accomplish the OJT element by forcing its students to pay extra for a B1 type-rating course (I'm not kidding), and the availability of that is not guaranteed.