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In recent years, vocational learning has been the focus of significant change and growth in education and it has become an established part of the educational landscape. The challenge now is how best to integrate vocational learning into the mainstream curriculum and organisational delivery of schools. In this article, the author argues that the initiatives in vocational learning will be best sustained through a reconstruction of the paradigms that define the nature of student learning in vocational education and the organisational structures and practices that deliver it. Two key areas in which this paradigm redefinition should occur are outlined: (1) the development of a new curriculum construct for defining learning in the key competencies; and (2) the construction of new organisational management frameworks for the delivery of vocational education and training (VET) programs in schools.