We seek to strike new balances between academic, vocational and citizenship qualifications, and to consider the relative weight of didactic and more active, or experiential, methods of teaching and learning to achieve these ends.
What young people need to know is still bound by the demands of their particular social and cultural environment. It is dependent upon what they need to be doing now and what they plan or hope to be doing in the future. Despite increasing mobility, and therefore the need for transferable and nationally recognised qualifications, many young people are still - perhaps inappropriately - very focused on their immediate interests and locales. What counts as "useful knowledge" can be very context-specific.
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