ABSTRACT
Throughout Western Europe, as in Britain, the place that education is supposed to occupy in the polity has radically altered in recent years. This chapter examines some of the new influences on educational policies in Europe during the seventies. Government policy in the area of secondary education during the period 1970-75 may be said to have been a continuation of that which drew its impulse from the previous decade. In countries where vocational education is not integrated into the school, they represent a very substantial alteration in the balance of power - and perhaps even of control - in education. In higher education, attempts by government and administration to 're-knit' education and the economy have met with varying response. The changing nature of educational policy in Europe over the past decade is reflected primarily in the growth of participant interests both at secondary and higher education levels.
