The JAA examinations are sat on a monthly basis. From these exams schools receive feedback from the CAA and also their students.
If schools are working from old manuals then when new information comes from the exams such as new questions or slightly different wording or phrases they should be issuing ammendments to their students. Where many schools fall down is they do not own the copy right to their manuals and therefore can only issue ammendments as insert pages.
If manuals are being reproduced time after time using a photocopier the print quality is bound to degrade. And I have heard that in some cases the manuals are actually thinner than the pile of ammendments and barely legible.
I work for a school that has the copy right to our own manuals. This means that alterations can be made relatively painlessly and new manuals can be printed rather than photocopied. This means a much better standard is reached in the print quality, legibility and content of our manuals.
There is of course some degree of photocopying involved for some work sheets and practice papers.
