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This book analyses New Labour policy on lifelong learning and offers recommendations designed to upgrade vocational education and training (VET) in the United Kingdom (UK). The author suggests that if the UK is to create a high status and quality VET system, then a unified curriculum is needed and all vocational learning needs to be grounded in a values foundation with emphasis on social justice and community interests. The chapters are: Lifelong learning and the post-school education and training; The reconstruction of education and training; Vocational skills qualifications and NVQs; Employers and vocational education and training; New Labour policy and post-compulsory sector; The emerging national system of education and training; Values and vocational studies; Lifelong learning and New Deal values in the learning age.