Mad Jock, surely an incipient spin is the same, irrespective of who is at the controls.
The correct teaching should surely be to recognise and efficiently recover from any attitude, rather than merely to complete a set piece manoeuvre from an ideal straight and level entry because a syllabus requires a box to be ticked. Pilots don't generally enter an incipient spin from S&L, but from a botched manoeuvre.
The UK PPL syllabus isn't the same since spinning was no longer required, pilots still make handling errors such as low speed/ too high a rate of bank on the finals turn and still need to know what to do about them.