For DCPC to be a proper “recognised” qualification, rather than proof that you’ve bribed DVLA/VOSA for the right to take a higher paid local bod’s job, then it is going to include some written elements that are hard for foreigners to get as I’ve already said.
If it was dead simple for anyone to get by bunging some trainer at the pub, then many of us would be forming an orderly queue at the pub.
If I could get on the Open University for a total outlay of less than a grand, I’d jump at the chance. For a proper degree though, there are a lot of extra costs involved that of course mean that very few people actually complete any DECENT degrees in DECENT subjects that get you the DECENT jobs. It’s which university you choose that has you rubbing shoulders with the entrenched elites that bring the big opportunities. Like being recruited from a History degree course at Cambridge by government departments, investment banks, and even accountancy firms. The key thing is Cambridge which still commands high respect for the opportunities it brings.
The best qualification one can get these days seems to be “I went to the same synagogue as my next prospective employer”. Ie, it’s not what you know, but who you know.
As for the rank and file worker… All these so-called (cut above the rest) “Captains of Industry” are the main villains in the ‘race to the bottom game’ are they not? Supermarkets, Investment Banks, Media Empires - all teaming up against dithering outsiders like Cameron who are just happy to be buffeted about on the real winds of power when he’s supposed to have the top job himself. Just how many jobs for the ordinary worker are these captains of industry creating? Real jobs that is. Well-paid jobs for the regular population that is.
The “lobbying rich” will be giving instructions to government ministers that might as well be “We’ve got a brand new rip-off to fleece some extra dosh from the public. We require YOU at westminster to (1) help get any laws changed as necessary to implement it (2) do NOT regulate it once it’s up and running, then (3) look the other way for the rest of your come-and-go administration, and then back us up when the game is up, and we’ll of course bring up any evidence that you were actually complicit from the very beginning. Remember politician, you look to US for advancement - especially once you lose an election! WE only ask a little help from you whilst you hold the levers of power in exchange… Slavery and Serfdom by the backdoor for those not among our number would be a good place for us to start now wouldn’t it?”
So, for the fourth decade now, we have citizens paying to go to work, the rich not paying enough taxes, school qualifactions deflated to nothing, a pull-the-ladder-up celebrity/elite culture, and no more foreign powers out there to snap up all the “idle hands” that this " leaving of the low-born talent on the shelf" once represented.
The former middle classes are being asked to jump one way or the other. If you support the top brass, and manage to keep hold of your own assets, you’ll probably be elevated to the upper classes. Those who for any reason don’t make the grade, will fall down to our level, their pensions crushed, livelihoods taken away, and extra charges and commissions introduced for just about anything to do with everyday life - just to make sure that the new age riff-raff get to be kept away from the new-age upper crusts.
The flow of money between the two “new issue” classes will take the form of “compensation payments” or “reundancies” or “robbery proceeds” from top to bottom, with “financial transaction charges including interest”, “paying to go to work at every level”, and “higher cost of living prices” moving the money from bottom to top.
The middle has become a battlefield, and there’s already not that many left able to stand that ground with the constant bombardment that is now taking place. Choose your side, jump your side - but you can’t stay in the middle any more! 
