Focuses on changes in British education affecting teacher education and training, examining rhetoric and reality, politics, the structure of experience, staff perceptions, and organizational systems. Experiences at a teachers' college in northern England illustrate these changes in the context of the British National Curriculum. (SLD)

Highlights the significance of the mass media as an integral element of educational policy making and implementation, and reports on the initial conceptualization of research into the involvement of the British mass media in the policy-making process. An international agenda is suggested for research into media and education policy. (SLD)

Career education and guidance are being given high priority and substantial funding in Britain. Recent government mandates have led to an integrated academic and career curriculum, better trained staff, intermediate private career-service organizations, work experience for students in 90% of secondary schools, more fully realized career-resource…