ABSTRACT
The debate about education and training has assumed a special significance in the past ten years, associated as it is with questions related to the purposes of schooling. Education can then be seen as an open-ended process with the aim of transforming a student's view of the world; and training as the correct term for tasks where there are clearly pre-specifiable objectives with identifiable criteria for right and wrong. Wider opportunities for training and retraining of people in their 20s, 30s and later in life are bound to be required in the future. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is a commendable goal and so is the fulfilment of an individual's educational desires. According to Ranson, Taylor and Brighouse in their introduction to The Revolution in Education and Training, published in 1986, the New Vocationalism is only one of two mainstream philosophies associated with the current revolution in the education and training of 14-19-year-olds.
