Indicates the nature of reforms now being undertaken to mitigate the effects of unemployment among young people in Europe and the accompanying pressures on education systems. (Author/RK)

The author documents a trend in Western Europe toward increasing control of programs for the 16-19 age group by "para-educational agencies," such as Ministeries of Employment and Labor Market Boards, rather than by traditional education Ministeries and Departments. He looks at administrative structures and their curricular impact. (SJL)

Examines general education and vocational education as the main foci of post-compulsory education in the light of curriculum planning. Perspectives (academic, pragmatic, and polytechnical) on general education are shown to be rooted in more elaborately formulated theories than are perspectives (employment-based and school-based) on vocational…