Regulations should be in place to protect the individual from indebtting themselves, especially if there are no guarentees of a job and you haven't actually seen the final on-the-line contract until your training is complete.
This is a free society! Are you really saying my union subs should be spent on stopping people buying themselves a rating? Strewth! Talk about unreal. Define 'democracy' for me please! 'Freedom of the individual' and all that. Good luck to them. It is the jealous ones who get left behind through not being able to fund it that are carping. It's like saying we should all have the same cars, so stop people buying themselves really nice ones!
Stop wasting your effort chaps. Look after your own interests and stop trying to spoil others who go that much further.