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In France, there are variations in the rate of growth in levels of education and training. For those born around 1970, the growth rate rose sharply, coming to an abrupt halt for those born at the end of that decade. This has been in spite of the high demand for skilled labour. In this article, the authors argue that the current variations demonstrate the evolutionary process of a model for the creation and development of individual professional attitudes. This model, until recently, was largely founded on longer periods of initial education. Their hypothesis is that a different model, one in which education and training throughout working life plays a much greater part in the distribution of qualifications and certificates is being progressively put into place. The analysis of this hypothesis is undertaken in two parts: an analysis of past evidence, followed by a projection into the future. The authors conclude that the rise in levels of education within the population has come to a complete long-term halt and that conditions i.e. the unique nature of the system of education provision, the normative relationship that exists between education and employment, and the fluctuation in the demand for education, which could lead to a resumption are not currently converging.