EUROPEAN POST-16 EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND PARITY OF ESTEEM considers reforms of European post-16 education and systems of vocational education and training and their response to the challenge of promoting parity of esteem between initial vocational education and general/academic education. Its conclusions have been drawn from the case studies of Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Scotland and Sweden. This volume is the final report of the Post-16 Strategies Project. The two-year project was carried out with the financial support of the Commission of the European Communities under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The Post-16 Strategies Project has been managed by Dr Johanna Lasonen and coordinated by the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä.