YOU GUYS ARE FUNNY you crack me up.....
I'll buy the first round seeing as no one else offered.
I did my licence at PHS - My son did his licence with THG both at Moorabbin a long time apart. We both got work straight out of training - I had no experience and no talent and started at the top.
Both place are running businesses and you need to be perceptive when it comes to parting with your $$$$$. Settle ALL details up front and be cheeky about what you're going to expect. I have heard some places will take $$ up front and keep reskedding your flights to fill empty holes in their programs.....do it at your time and pace agreed in advance very clearly.
It is about your attitude and knocking on doors. Most places will give you a good standard of training, so you just have to make yourself available and employable..... Turning up at someone's office looking like ANY of the guys from "slipknot" (but especially the drummer) is sure to end in tears. Same if you have no interest in traveling for the work. "Oh - I don't know" is not an answer and "I'm single and there doesn't seem much to do there", I have heard when employing as well.
As for the better schools....knock on the door or pick up the phone, get a feel for where your cash is going and judge the substance. Gawd, even when people buy drugs they check the dealer and the product. At least with a syllabus there's some hope you'll be able to hover.
For what it's worth the Gold coast is nice Caloundra the same, in case you aren't familiar with the area.
Good luck.
DD