The City of Bristol College Basic Training B1/B2 course with the A320 tye rating counting as OJT is a scam, if it is still being offered.
The B1 type rating course used to be sold, at additional cost of £2,500 or so to what they paid for a Fully Approved Basic course (Cat B), to unwitting students who are not told that it's useless to them before they can even apply for a licence. They cannot do that until they have completed their minimum 2 years work experience, by which time the type rating course will not get them a rating because it's too old. The Practical element may well not be available, either, which makes any type course worthless.
They used to be told that they had to pay for and complete the type-rating course in order to complete the Basic Training OJT, because the type course would count as OJT. Yup, that's what they said. It was a complete stitch-up, and I heard that the CAA had finally woken out of its stupor, put down the teacup and done something about it. Perhaps they have not done that, after all.
The last I heard, CoB are still sending students off after completing the Modules and Practical training, telling them to get their own OJT, although they have been promised and paid for a fully-approved Basic Training course. Without the OJT arranged, integrated and managed by the Part 147 MTO, a Basic Training course is no longer a "Fully-Approved" course (integrated OJT is a required ingredient). In those circumstances the OJT is wasted time and money, since if a student completes a "non-Approved" course he/she must do 5 years work experience, and the OJT is not required.
The story was that sending students off to get their own OJT started when the CAA finally stopped the use of a type rating course as "OJT". Maybe the story was wrong.
There was, natch, a linkage between the type course provider and CoB, but it's best not to turn that stone over.