Education and training structures in Britain and France have been inadequate to meet the changing labour market demands … into the school curriculum and the imposition of training obligations on employers differ markedly from the recent adoption … decentralised industrial training system. Some of the actual and potential strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are …

A comparison of state‐regulated provision of continuing vocational training in France with the voluntarist British … model highlights Britain′s poor record in the 1980s and 1990s. The widespread well‐financed training culture in France … innovation and good practice in ongoing training in the workplace throughout the European Union but there is no move towards …