Looks at major characteristics and developments in vocational education/training in the Czech Republic before and after 1989, examines four reform initiatives, and views challenges for reform management at system level. Argues that past policy in this area has been restricted to solving school-based problems inherited from the past, with little…

Analysis of recent vocational education reforms in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech and Slovak republics looks at the nature of modernization efforts and structural changes, and the role of foreign assistance and international cooperation. Current initiatives are seen as an attempt to catch up with the Western world of the 1970s. (MSE)