Porter,
I did my CPL at RMIT before it could provide the course on the taxpayers purse. You would think that such a reputable organisation would be an excellent provider of training before and after they were Fee help/HELP approved. I won't go into the details but many people left with big debts and no licence. They enrol far too many students for the facilities available.
This may be an isolated case you may say but according to one particular skills counsel I won't name there are more dodgy provers out there than you can poke a stick at. They arent the majority but they tarnish everyone. You porter may be at a good one but but with a system so broken something had to be done.