QF are giving false hope. Fair enough that many have and will continue to pay for their own training.
But now QF have blurred the line by having a third party provider inside their own establishment training QF staff, doing the Prac on a QF plane but then at the end of the day saying no sorry we don't need your licence.
It should be kept at arms length. Either endorse third party training and recognise the time and money spent or keep them out of the QF training school. This is QF having their cake and eating it too.