ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a consideration of two basic themes: firstly, the extent to which education and occupation are related; secondly, an explanation of how knowledge and the education system can be managed and organized to promote some conception of a desirable future society. Education is playing an even greater part in the process of occupational and social mobility than it has done in the past. Changes in educational provision can influence the distribution of income between occupations. A complex relationship exists between the formal selection procedure within the education system and the fostering of different levels of vocational aspiration among children attending different types of school. The chapter examines this notion of education as knowledge-management. Education is a powerful instrument of social control that can be used to promote almost any social goal. This also involves the analysis of the interrelationship between educational organizations and the economy, the power structure and the communications systems.
