Post-Compulsory Education and the New Millennium

Further education in the UK is a rapidly changing and expanding sector, central to government educational policy. Post-Compulsory Education and the New Millennium seeks to provide an up-to-date overview of the post-compulsory sector of education and analyse the current trends and policies likely to affect both teachers and teacher trainers.

The contributors have established national and international reputations in the post-16 education field and provide analytical and critical accounts of:

• Further education under New Labour
• National Vocational Qualifications
• New qualifications and Patterns of Assessment
• Teacher education and staff development
• Management and funding of further and higher education

The book also includes an Anglo-German comparison of vocational education and transitions in employment and concludes by considering future perspectives on post-compulsory education.