VOCATIONAL-TRAINING AND THE EUROPEAN-COMMUNITY

This paper investigates Community policy towards vocational training a nd re-training. A distinction is drawn between assistance offered to m ember state programmes and support for community-level measures proper . Financial flows to the former dominate but it is shown that such lar ge-scale external funding might simply replace national spending and h ence have little impact on net. The plethora of supranational training programmes and initiatives, also identified in the paper, are shown t o depend for their success on the availability of reliable manpower pl anning instruments and effective re-distribution.