This volume contains five separate items dealing with “Education and Youth Unemployment”. Originally, they were contributions to the Ninth Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (9CCEM) held in Nicosia in July 1984, where the subject was one of the three major items on the agenda. They have been put together in this form to meet a variety of needs including those of researchers and workers in the field of youth unemployment and the school-to-work transition, and of education officials wishing to make cross-country comparisons of problems and solutions in the mid-1980s.