To anyone considering the MPL route, which I think is the most up-to-date pilot training method nowadays, I strongly recommend that the ICAO rules guidelines be followed.
1 - Get a sponsoring airline, even if you pay for the course, that will provide the base training, up to 12 take-offs and landings, and will guarantee, at least, the line training upon successful MPL training. 1500 hours needed to unfreeze the ATPL.
2 - Go to the MPL training school chosen by the sponsoring airline. They know which ones are reputable and provide the best professional training.
3 - If there is still a will to enroll into an MPL course run by any FTO that doesn't put in writing a guarantee that the cadet will finish with a sure job, or with a viable pilot's licence, then don't come to PPRuNe to complain.
Nobody can say that the dramas described over the years here are not true. And the dramas continue to unfold only because some people think they can get away with it.
They can't!!!!