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This chapter examines education and employability in Italy. The structure of Italy's education system has undergone major reforms in recent years, to upgrade vocational education and to increase flexibility between general and vocational education. The author examines different models of vocational education and training (VET), contrasting educational redundancy, which produces greater transferability, with suitability, which produces lower transferability but requires less initial investment. An integrated and unified qualifications system is presented and discussed as a contribution to flexibility in VET. Individual motivation towards education is also discussed. The author examines the forecasting of labour demands and investigates the Excelsior project, which uses surveys to forecast labour trends up to two years in advance. The project's continuing vocational training survey (CVTS) from 2000 highlights aspects of flexibility, mobility and transferability. The author discusses the consequences of the survey findings. Italy requires a systemic approach to VET, with a balance between specialisation and differentiation, fostering mobility in its approach to working life.