Andrew McCoshan is an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for Education and Industry, and a Director with Ecorys Research and Consulting. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE) where the subject of his PhD was English education policy and its impact on the curriculum. He subsequently joined the research staff of the LSE, working on an analysis of the development of British VET (see Enterprise and Human Resource Development, 1993). Since then he has built up over 17 years' research and consultancy experience, leading many studies for the UK government and the European Commission.  Most recently, he was lead author of a study of VET pathways for the EC (Beyond the Maastricht Communiqué, 2008), carried out the last evaluation of Cedefop, and directed a UK study to develop indicators on the responsiveness of vocational qualifications.