For what it's worth I taught some of the ATPL subjects for a while and, whilst I retired a couple of years ago, my memories are clear. Some of the Bucks students were undoubtedly more than capable of achieving good results but there seemed to be an inherent attitude within the Bucks classes that work was a four letter word and something that was there to be done by the lecturers and not the students. Many of these students, I have no doubt, would have progressed far better without the distractions of what I came to believe in as a dubious degree course where they were given little guidance and even less motivation. Some, I know, are now following successful aviation careers but others have fallen by the way side where they might well have achieved far more by following a more traditional modular or integrated course. Perhaps things have changed in the last two years.