This article reviews national policy in work-based learning for young people during the mid-1990s in the United Kingdom. It is divided into three main sections. A brief contextual section covers the period of implementation of a national framework of post-compulsory qualifications prior to 1994 and the mounting pressures to which it was subjected. The second section examines a phase during which the framework and the place of NVQs within it was reviewed by official enquires led by Sir Ron Dearing and Gordon Beaumont (1995–1996). The third section deals with policy in the context of the long run-up to the General Election of May 1997. © 1998 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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