This book reports on an examination of educational policy in Australia and focuses on the educational and training needs of and provision for young people entering working life. The content is in two parts. Part 1, which comprises two-thirds of the report, has ten chapters. Chapter 1 identifies nine topics on which the report is focused. Chapters 2 and 3 describe the educational setting in Australia, and its federal system. Major trends in the provision of secondary and postsecondary Australian education and the patterns of student enrollment, are identified in chapter 4. Chapter 5 covers curriculum and examinations and includes the social role of education and educational expansion. Chapter 6 analyzes the relationship between education and the world of work and shows how recent changes in the structure of employment have affected the ways in which young people enter working life. Chapter 7 examines whether some of the imbalances between tertiary, technical, and further education might be in part a result of the different financial sources. Chapters 8 and 9 cover career education, transition services, and the problems of disadvantaged groups. The final chapter in part 1 addresses eight sets of questions to the Australian authorities to promote discussion of the issues. Part 2 is a record of the discussion at a review meeting at which searching questions pertaining to the issues covered in the report were put to an official Australian delegation. (EM)