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Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of the purpose of education. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between education concerned with concepts, and training concerned with skills. The challenge now is to define how schools can give young people the foundations for life in a working world in which they are likely to have to change jobs and where work will fill a smaller proportion of their lives than ever before. Meeting this challenge will require profound changes in the educational and training systems in the direction of a core of fundamental studies for all young people and a more broadly based approach to training. The Vocational Quest critically assesses the evolution of vocationalism in Britain in historical terms and examines how the particular forms that have come into being in the last few years compare with developments in other parts of the world, including continental Europe, Japan, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It argues for new forms of communication and partnership between formal education and training and the wider community, in which values will be shared and no one partner will win at the expense of the others.

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`This book is certainly worth reading.' - Education & Training `This book...should be a standard reference text for anyone who wishes to understand the changes in British education...' - Higher Education Review

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Malcolm Skilbeck is Deputy Director responsible for Education and Training at the OECD, Paris. Helen Connell is a freelance educational consultant and researcher. Nicholas Lowe is a Policy Analyst for Westminster City Council. Kirsteen Tait is London Director of the Open School.

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