TNIP, I agree, schools such as The Aeroplane Company and ACFT were both great schools with excellent instructors, not sausage factories at all; the reasons they are no longer here are probably only really known by the directors but the common denominator was this kind of training. Personally I preferred to just cross hire aircraft to them and not get involved in the training side, I'm close to retirement and don't want to start some big new project now. Similarly I did look into doing JAR training about 15 years ago as I had the qualifications but it was just too much hassle for too little return...the amount of hours I would have to fly just to pay for the auditors simply wasn't worth it. Life is too short for all that paperwork
and if it is at the whim of a Minister, as this Fee-Help thing is, then it is far too precarious a basket to put all the eggs in!