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This book, part of the Higher education policy series, provides an overview of post-compulsory education in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides an analysis of trends and policies affecting both teachers and teacher trainers and includes an Anglo-German comparison of vocational education and transitions in employment. The chapters are: The changing framework of post-16 education - the rhetoric of reform / Colin Griffin and David Gray; Vocational education and training into the new millennium / Clyde Chitty; Further education under new Labour: rhetoric and reality / Bill Bailey and Patrick Ainley; Lifelong learning - an agenda for a late-modern future / Peter Jarvis; Vocational training, career guidance, work and citizenship: education in democracy / Barry Hutchinson; Ideology and curriculum policy under the old and new conservatives: GNVQ revisited / Denis Gleeson and Phil Hodkinson; Inclusive lifelong learning or stratified lifelong learning? Educational policy developments in late modernity / Martin Dyke; The management of teaching in further education: issues from a case study / Geoffrey Elliott; Cinderella FE - you shall go to the ball! / Don Bradley; Ethos as tradition and ethos in practice: sixth form colleges after incorporation / John Robinson; Mass market higher education / Gareth Williams; Accrediting lectures using competence-based approaches: a cautionary tale / Geoffrey Elliott; Towards professionalism: teaching in further education / Norman Lucas; Finding new ways to work: learning and risk in changing labour markets / Karen Evans, Martina Behrens and Jens Kaluza.