When you have folk passing through the college and then waiting for anything up to 2 years to start either IVC's or live training, you have to wonder ..... who decided to cut training section staff, budgets and courses...... ? .... what a senseless waste of human life...
As an aside, leaving an airport, going back to college to do the Area ratings, doing your IVC and then live training, will take a MINIMUM of 18 mths. I know - I've just done it - and I doubt the system could have let it be done faster, and I consider myself lucky, slipping straight on to an IVC and not waiting around to start live training.