Materials are presented from a seminar that brought together practicing German and British educationalists to compare the differing curriculum decisions and implementation processes in England and Wales with those in the Federal Republic of Germany. A foreword provides the objectives, methods, and funding bodies. Section 2 is a comparative introduction to the text that makes recommendations for further study. Detailed comments on the formal structure of technical and vocational education in the Federal Republic of Germany are offered. Specific topics are the upper secondary vocational school system, vocational training at upper secondary level outside schools, and curriculum processes. Section 4 is a glossary of terms used in the three specialists reports. The next three sections contain the reports of the technician education, business education, and vocational education groups. Each report describes the structure of the educational system in the two countries as determined from visits and the curriculum and/or curriculum development. Section 8 presents the conclusions and suggestions for further study from each of the three groups. The final section includes the seminar timetable with a list of institutions studied during the seminar and a list of membership in the seminar. (YLB)

This latest volume of the Register of Educational Research in the United Kingdom lists all the major research projects being undertaken in Britain during the latter months of 1992, the whole of 1993 and 1994 and the early months of 1995. Each entry provides names and addresses of the researchers, a detailed abstract, the source and amount of the grant(where applicable), the length of the project and details of published material about the research.

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 what education is for. 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 educations concerned with concepts and training, or with skills. The challenge now is to define how the 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. The Vocational Quest maps 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 others.