Technological change demands stronger and more continuous connections between education and employment, says Andrew Palmer. The faint outlines of such a system are now emerging

Special Report on Lifelong Education
Lifelong Education
Learning and earning
- Learning and earning: Lifelong learning is becoming an economic imperative
- Cognition switch: What employers can do to encourage their workers to retrain
- Old dogs, new tricks: How older employees perform in the workplace
- The return of the MOOC: Established education providers v new contenders
- Pathway dependency: Turning qualifications into jobs
- The elephant in the truck: Retraining low-skilled workers
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