ABSTRACT
The situation in the United Kingdom has changed somewhat as private institutions have both grown in number and expanded in size, mainly in direct response to the growth of the Youth Training Scheme and the willingness of the Manpower Services Commission to commission training programmes from them. Perhaps the most highly centralised state is Japan where, mainly for historical and traditional reasons, the central government has largely determined the nature and content of the publicly-run educational system. In West Germany, as in Japan, the majority of industrial training is provided on-the-job, by industry itself, though the quality and length of such training varies somewhat from one occupation to another. West Germany, too, is a federal country with considerable responsibilities for the provision of vocational education and training devolved to the eleven state governments, or Lander. Thus, Japan's Special Training and Miscellaneous Schools, and American private proprietorial vocational colleges, loom large in the national systems of vocational education and training.
