More than 80 delegates representing 17 Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) member countries participated in a seminar directed toward policymakers and practitioners involved in establishing and maintaining linkages between secondary and postsecondary education, training, and employment. The seminar, which was jointly organized by the OECD and U.S. Department of Education, was designed to give participants an opportunity to accomplish the following: inform each other about different forms of articulation and alternative pathways permitting young people to prepare for qualified work, further learning, and active participation in social, political, and cultural life; explore effective responses to problems of educational and occupational orientation and to the risks of premature exit from education and training at the critical stage of transition to adulthood; and reflect together on promising ways of cooperation and coordination between the different levels of government, education system, and industry. Opinion regarding the process of establishing and maintaining linkages was divided. Most participants felt that educational reform should be generated through a series of initiatives around specific problems (a bottom-up approach). A second group of participants advocated a more systemic approach, and a third group called for developing linkages through an evolutionary process of experimentation. (MN)