There are sylabus changes. Contact Bristol GS - I spoke to them about this 2 months ago, unfortunately AESA could not confirm any sylabus.THeir best guess at the time was the sylabus change would be minimal.
I, like you will be waiting for post April 2012, however, now run the risk of having to also do the skills test and the CRM course despite having over 2000 heavy jet hours and a CAA CRMI tick. Mental.
I hope group realise that by not staffing the Exemptions, they have just turned a retention system into one where every man and his dog is going out and getting their tickets. Whereas people used to stick around till their 1000 hours point (captain) I now see 60-80% of first tourist copilots getting their lincenses in. The net result? Well, once the industry picks up (which it is), as well as overseas military transfers (UAE, India,Qatar) we are going to see a head for the exits pretty darned quick.