This paper describes a study undertaken to determine quality and needs in work-related nonadvanced further education (NAFE) in England. The descriptive paper is organized in nine sections. The first section introduces the project, which focused on a description of issues of quality in respect to content, structure, and delivery of curricula for the period 1988-1991. It also describes the methodology of the study (a literature search and use of consultants). Section II suggests that quality is a complex mix of issues and springs from the interrelation and interplay among a variety of factors. The planning, design, delivery, and evaluation of quality provision is, therefore, assisted by the use of a framework that identifies the main elements of quality and their relationship to each other. A framework for discussion of quality is described in Section III. Sections IV-VIII identify the main quality issues under each element of the curriculum development process and relate these issues to the demands and responsibilities implied in the construction of educational development plans. From this analysis is derived a checklist of quality issues for each element, together with ground rules for translating them into practice. These appear at the end of each of these five sections. (Appendix 2 contains a full checklist of the ground rules from all five sections for easy reference.) The final section, a short summary and conclusion, is followed by 41 references. (KC)