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It's not the training. The training is fine. It's mostly the same people who were doing the training when I went through it just a few years ago.
The problem is the trainees. They now tend to be low time, inexperienced, without the level of skill necessary to succeed, and our training department isn't going to dilute the training or pass them simply for the sake of getting bodies on line.
If your airline needs pilots, and the pass rate in training is too low, then training needs to be adopted to fit your new hire experience level. If you are getting the numbers you need online with a high failure rate, then it is not a (short term) problem.
My airline needs more pilots online, and we have adjusted our training to match our new hire experience level a number of times.