In Human Resource Development and Workplace Governance in the Caribbean. Edited by Noel Cowell and Clement Branche. 2002. Ian Randle Publishers: Kingston Pp 37-43

This Chapter poses some basic questions about education, training and the new workplace.

These questions are:

• Is the workplace the main aim of education and training?
• Should education and training occur only prior to the workplace?
• Is the new workplace axiomatic and education and training the problematic?
• Where is the new workplace?
• Are not jobs, work and virtual reality not more problematic than education and training?
• Are the old distinctions between academic education and vocational training still useful?
• Will the institutional framework for delivering education and training not change substantially over the next decades?
• How should education and training be redesigned to give Caribbean people maximum opportunity to benefit from high-wage work that is and will be generated?