So as an employee, the DCPC course could actually be seen as not such a bad deal, paid to either sit at home, or in a classroom, tea and biscuits and a change from having to take a truck down the road. That’ll be the reasons why it’s not seen as a bad deal, I hear very few people saying it makes them more professionally competent.
Yep, from my pov they pay for it, but it’s done unpaid on a Saturday.
If asked ‘What could be the best way to spend your Saturdays’ ?
My answer would be…
‘‘Ooh definitely doing a mind numbingly boring DCPC course, reluctantly and unpaid’’
Not…
If I was paid for it in works time (as good companies do) , I would most deffo have a different pov, and look at it as ‘just something else I have to do at work’.
After saying that if spent at home and paid for, sitting in front of a effin computer doing it, and having to appear interested and take notice, my present situation may well be looked at as a better alternative.I 
Does anyone know what they mean by the existing:-
“e-learning in a trainer-led course is limited to 2 hours
you’re allowed to do a total of 12 hours e-learning towards your overall 35 hours of training”
And the new:-
“you will be able to take e-learning only courses - for example, you could take an approved 3 hours 30 minutes long e-learning course at your workplace or home
you’ll be allowed to do a total of 12 hours e-learning towards your overall 35 hours of training”
I note that omits “trainer led” so could that mean just watching a video on a computer?
What is e-learning? Presumably it doesn’t mean zoom because I did 35 hrs, not just 12.
I skipped over all that e-learning stuff, basically because I don’t know anyone who does “e-learning” for DCPC, mainly because of the technicalities. It’s the kind of thing which has to be developed/created by geeks so is usually “bought in” by the training provider.
Schools are quite big on this, both of my kids had to engage with this stuff as homework over the past few years: They and their schoolfriends all disliked it massively as all aspects of it are controlled by the software - it’s not a soft option.
It has to be an interactive process, so not just watching a video, it has to be something where the candidate is engaged with the e-learning throughout, which is all timed and requires reading at a speed dictated by the software and answering on screen questions within a specific time frame
EDIT: FORS have some very simplified and free e-learining courses of about 20 minutes duration, so this gives a hint of what a 3.5 hour course might be like
Thanks, but I guess that must sail close to the wind against the “no testing” in dcpc policy.
The new N-DCPC periodic test is what I’ve always said the DCPC should be.
An hour or two of multiple choice questions with pass/fail should be far more productive than 35 hours of course attendance.
Having the option of a reasonably short test or 35 hours of training course attendance should keep everyone happy.
Obviously the last paragraph is said a little tongue in cheek 
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To be fair the e-learning and the new N-DCPC periodic test are both optional.
Yes optional, but the international dcpc allows e-learning but prohibits any testing.