This paper discusses selected issues which an effective education system should address. These issues are anchored in two central questions. These are: 

The concept of visioning for the Caribbean region will be influenced by global trends as well as emerging trends in the region itself, for we are part of an interdependent global network. Note, therefore, the following statements: 
Size is no longer a source of competitive advantage. (The Economist, 21 December 1996). 
 
In the next decade pivotal changes are expected in the American and inter­national economies in management and organizational functions and in the nature of work itself. (Workplace Visions, Nov./Dec. 1996)