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This issue of Unicorn, entitled 'Learning in a knowledge society: the vocational dimension', contains papers that were generated within the context of the Building the Profession to Support Vocational Learning Project, a joint venture between the Australian College of Educators (ACE) and the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation (ECEF) conducted between November 2001 and December 2002. This project investigated the requirements for all educators to better support vocational learning. The articles, covering a mix of policy, practice and research, are: Introduction / Jim Cumming; What's in a name?: the meaning of 'vocational' in changing times / Geoff Spring and Jim Syrmas; What does 'learning' mean in a post-industrial society? / Bill Healey and Jacqueline Shimeld; Leading sustainable change in vocational learning / Paul Kilvert; Teaching and vocational learning / Maureen Ryan; Building vocational education and learning into practice: a senior college's experience / Michael Bradley and Ann Nield; Leadership for change in secondary schools: personal observations in relation to the VET agenda / Liz Schneyder; A practitioner's view of vocational education and training in schools / Christine Klee; Learning communities: developments in Victoria / Howard Kelly and Loris Perry; VET in schools: the needs of industry / Steve Ghost; On-line learning in the knowledge-based society: a VET perspective / Josie Misko; Building the Profession to Support Vocational Learning: position paper / Australian College of Educators.