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The contemporary efflorescence of lifelong learning discourse in education and social planning is argued here to be, substantially, the product of economic determinism. That discourse is evaluated from the perspective of three progressive sentiments that have informed lifelong learning advocacy: the…

A number of jurisdictions have adopted vocational education and employment programs intended, among other aims, to reduce recidivism among adult correctional populations. Because of the well-established links between low educational attainment, unemployment and crime, these programs do seem to targe…

Australian unions entered the ‘national training reform agenda’ in the late 1980s promising themselves a high skill, high wage economy in which ‘lifetime learning’ was an integral part of paid employment. The regulatory arrangements the union movement sought in order to realise these goals have inst…

The presence of Muslims in the West has posed a challenge to the self-assured populations of Europe. This bibliography provides an overview of available scholarship in the English language on the situation of Muslims in Western Europe and in areas of traditional European settlement. It is demonstrab…

In Germany, structures and channels through the education system at first glance appear to be resilient to possible deviations from paths that have always been identified as reliable and more or less successful. One of the examples of a deeply rooted disinclination to reform is the Dual System of in…

Much has been written in recent years on the topic of competency-based training. In the context of recent training policies in Britain, the S/NVQ system has received a great deal of attention and publicity. Unfortunately, most of it is controversial and open to criticism. The promoters of the system…

A quiet reform has gone almost unnoticed in the many policy debates about improving America's schools. Labeled “The School-to-Work Revolution” by Lynn Olson and others, this little-noticed movement offers, at last, a solution to the constraining historical dualism between academic and vocational tra…

This paper examines changes in the firm-size and industrial structure of the private Australian construction industry that have occurred over the last two decades and assesses their causes and implications. The primary data source is ABS Construction Censuses. There has been significant change in th…

Standards for further education teachers in England and Wales were launched in January 1999 by the newly established Further Education National Training Organisation. They are intended to inform the initial training and continuing professional development of those involved in teaching and learning i…

The purpose of this article is to provide a critique of the idea widely promoted by governments and industrial parties in Australia that competency-based training (CBT) is a coherent model of vocation education and training with universal applicability. The critique is made first by way of illustrat…