If you want to be a licensed engineer. Dont go to uni. It'll only help if you want to get into management sooner.
Get your modules done and get applying to airlines.
This topic might also answer some questions.
http://www.pprune.org/engineers-tech...engineers.html
If you need to know anything about the process, drop me a message. I was in your situation a couple of years ago, I left college after doing a Diploma in Aerospace Engineering & NVQ Level 2 in Performing Engineering Operations, and ended up at the fork in the road.
"Do I go to Uni, or do I do my modules / get into an apprenticeship"
Someone within TCX who had close links with our college warned me off uni and to go the other route. Don't look back at the choice I made. In 9 Months i'll be applying for my A1 license, then starting to work on getting my B1.
But as I said, it all depends on where you see yourself within engineering.