ABSTRACT
The relations between industry and education are reciprocal, and have consequences for the structure of both institutions. On the one hand, there are the demands of employers for trained workers, or for those sufficiently well educated to be suitable for appropriate training; on the other hand, industry itself has an educational ‘subsystem’, including apprenticeship and on-the-job training schemes of various kinds. For the individual there is the half-way stage between being a student and being a worker that is implicit in the provision by some employers of day-release and ‘sandwich courses’. There is also the process of occupational choice and transition from school to work, which may involve problems for the individual of role and status in a changed social and physical environment.
