The state of Victoria (Australia) needs a well-educated, adaptable work force to face the numerous challenges stemming from the following: shifts in employment toward "knowledge workers"; the impact of competition, technological change, and microeconomic reform; aging of the population; disparate views regarding the purpose of education; and the increasing internationalization of capital, labor, and education. To cope with these and other changes, Victoria must ensure that people can learn throughout their working lives by working focusing on the following strategic directions: establishing new, more effective relationships between industry, students, service providers, and government (providing client-oriented differentiated services; planning and implementing industry-specific training strategies; improving industry and community understanding of the benefits of training and further education); giving meaningful expression to learning through life (meeting the increasing demand for just-in-time training, teaching people to learn, recognizing individual learners as primary clients); providing leadership in learning through new technologies (improving learning outcomes, enabling universal access to training, ensuring that local communities retain a major influence over work force training); and securing and developing resources for the future (ensuring that the level and mix of human and financial resources available to training and further education are flexible and adaptable enough to achieve desired outcomes). (MN)