ABSTRACT
Richard continues to be one of the few UK-based philosophers of education who recognises the importance of vocational education and has devoted much of his career to championing it. Vocational education is one of his many interests and learns much from his work on the role of subjects, on quality assurance in education and on the transition from school to adulthood, most notably through his groundbreaking work on the Nuffield Review of Education and Training. Careers education can reasonably be seen as part of the bigger picture of a personal development curriculum which includes personal, social and health education (PSHE) and citizenship. The development of careers education and an associated careers service worthy of the name will require massive investment. The educational aim set out at the beginning, that young people should be properly equipped to make worthwhile careers choices, is difficult to achieve in British conditions, although by no means impossible given an appropriate level of investment.
