In November 1982 the Prime Minister invited the Manpower Services Commission to launch a major new education initiative, the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI). The first 14 TVEI projects in England and Wales began in September 1983; a further 48 (which included five in Scotland) started in Autumn 1984 and 12 started in Autumn 1985 with further projects planned to start in 1986. The pilot projects are devised and managed by education authorities within criteria established by the Commission. They are testing, over five years, different approaches to organising and managing programmes of general, technical and vocational education of 14-18 year olds. This publication discusses how a range of organisations is developing, based on the evaluation by teachers, heads, project directors and co-ordinators, advisers, lecturers and administrators of the knowledge gained after up to two years' actual experience of running their pilot schemes.