ABSTRACT
The distinction between education and training in Great Britain is periodically, and of late more frequently, pronounced obsolete. Yet it persists with an energy that suggests strong ideological and political value. Nevertheless, it is difficult to escape the view that the arrangements and practices for workforce education and training appear seriously inadequate to meet the needs. Traditional attitudes and rigidities in the UK can make it exceedingly hard to secure appropriate educational provision for the workforce even assuming that there is agreement as to what is needed. The present government prefers voluntary effort by employers yet castigates them for failure adequately to invest in workforce training. The extension of the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) which lies outside the main scope of this chapter, illustrates problem of inadequate training and retraining of attitude and perception.
