Integrated = waste of money and Soviet Union
Modular = cheaper and freedom
So Flyingmama, I'd suggest you to send your son in USA in a good flying school like Skymates (the cheapest but at the same level of the others!), Flight Safety Academy, European Flight Training, or whichever school in USA, then become a Flight Instructor to start to work flying, to make experience and to gain a bit of money, or he could also go in Africa and make some Bush Flying experience, a well known route.
For the moment he has only to study hard at school, and after graduated he could try to apply for a cadet program like the Cathay Pacific's one.