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In recent years, governments worldwide have focused on developing the skills of the workforce as the key strategy to improving national competitiveness. This book, which is based on work undertaken by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), examines this high skills agenda at both policy and practice levels. The theme of the book is the desire on the part of policy makers to align the education and training systems more closely with the perceived needs of the labour market by reforming their countries' education and training systems. The chapters are: Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities / Geoff Hayward and Susan James; Fit for purpose?: sixty years of VET policy in England / Geoff Stanton and Bill Bailey; The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment / Jean-Luc De Meulemeester and Denis Rochat; 'I can't believe it's not skill': the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications / Ewart Keep and Jonathan Payne; Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system / Rosa M. Fernandez and Geoff Hayward; Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK?: the consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change / Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin; Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education / Hubert Ertl; Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions / Stephen Billett; Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers' involvement in education-business partnerships in the US and the UK / Suzanne Greenwald; Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond / Guy Haug; The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation? / Cecile Deer; Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning / Susan James and Geoff Hayward.