This report compares the provision of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. It finds that training policies are increasingly based on similar general principles which promote the improvement and reform of vocational education and training, although the implementation of these principles tends to remain specific to each country. Appended are: (1) Country overview; (2) Industry skills councils in Australia (Table 2); (3) Sector skills councils in the United Kingdom (Table 3); (4) Top ten training packages in Australia (Table 4); and (5) New training contracts in Germany 1998-2003 (Table 5). (Contains 5 tables and 2 figures.)