The essays presented in this publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO's new Education on the Move series. They cover a wide, although certainly not exhaustive, range of current practices, ideas and debates in the field of technical and vocational education and training (TVET). They come at a time when the importance and value of TVET is being increasingly recognized in the context of lifelong learning in a globalized world, by UNESCO and other national, regional and global stakeholders in education and international development. The following essays are included in this publication: (1) Reconceptualizing TVET and development: a human capability and social justice approach (Leon Tikly); (2) Vocationalization of secondary and higher education: pathways to the world of work (Rupert Maclean and Margarita Pavlova); (3) The attractiveness of TVET (Christopher Winch); (4) Learning through practice: beyond informal and towards a framework for learning through practice (Stephen Billett); (5) Work-based learning: Why? How? (Richard Sweet); (6) Why improved formal teaching and learning are important in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) (Jeanne Gamble); (7) Career guidance and orientation (A. G. Watts); (8) TVET and entrepreneurship skills (Aboubakr Abdeen Badawi); and (9) Technical and vocational education and training, and skills development for rural transformation (Darol Cavanagh, Greg Shaw and Li Wang). (An index is included. Individual papers contain references.)