Change is driven by trends and value shifts in the key areas of science and technology, social and cultural issues, politics, economics and, increasingly, environmental sustainability. Science holds some mind-boggling changes. Research is under way that seeks to unravel the circuitry of the brain. Educators may be able to run up a training program for, say, becoming a doctor, the imprinting of which on a student might become as simple as customising software for today's computers. Technology is leading to massive restructuring of the workplace, and is supposedly responsible for two thirds of the jobs lost since 1989. In post industrial society, the majority of the labour force will no longer be employed in such traditional areas as manufacturing and retailing. To find employment, people will have to move into the information and service sectors, where 40 per cent of today's workforce can be found. The new information and communication technologies create the potential for radically reorganising the location of employment to meet both environmental and social goals: that is, of reducing travel and bringing the home, the school and the workplace together. The reality, however, is that much high-tech home working is targeted at women caring for young children at home. Such home work thereby reinforces the traditional distinction between men's and women's work. Social and cultural issues play a major part in setting future trends. One of the major challenges is to look at how men could be encouraged to broaden their focus from the competitive climb up the career ladder to taking up caring roles both in the home and in the community. Environmental management, both at the government and corporate level, is likely to be one of the key career growth areas. On the economic front, many would now argue that, in its traditional sense, full employment is unachievable. Unless current policies change, we can expect the creation of a permanent rump of unemployed, many of whom we can expect to be young. Any discussion of future employment and education needs, therefore, to look beyond the traditional definition of what constitutes a job.