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The New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum 2010 was held at Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, on April 14 and 15. The Forum was opened by Dr Peter Coolbear, Director of Ako Aotearoa: The Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. 

The New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum 2010 was held at Rutherford House, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, on April 14 and 15. The Forum was opened by Dr Peter Coolbear, Director of Ako Aotearoa: The Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.

The Industry Training Federation would like to thank the keynote and plenary speakers, those who presented papers, attendees, and Forum sponsors and supporters. The Federation would particularly like to recognise the support of and thank our Forum Partners: Ako Aotearao and the Department of Labour.

Copies of addresses and presentations from the Forum are available for download in PDF format below. 

NZ VET Research Forum Programme 2010.pdf  

 

Keynote and Plenary Speakers

 VET Sectors: Alignments in Workforce and Economic Development (828KB)

Professor Richard Lakes (Georgia State University)


The Upskilling Evaluation: Background research on effective workplace literacy interventions (522KB)

Dr John Benseman, Dr Cathy Wright, and Anne Alkema (Department of Labour)

 

 The OECD Leveraging Training and Skills Development in SMEs Project - the New Zealand study (4326KB)

Professor Paul Dalziel (AERU, Lincoln University)

 

Concurrent Sessions

Session 1:

Postgraduate Research Showcase

Towards a Theory of National HRD Policy Evaluation and Engagement (67KB) 
Lois Parkes (Victoria University of Wellington)
 Human Capital Deficiency in the New Zealand Dairy Industry: A case study (1384KB) 
Rachel Lowry (Statistics New Zealand) and Associate Professor Graham Elkin (University of Otago)
"Pastas - they are all the same": Potential language, literacy and numeracy challenges of supermarket work. (361KB) 
Kim Hastwell (Auckland University of Technology)

 

Thematic Session: Developing Management

 Management Development from the Perspective of Small Firm Owner-Managers (545KB) 
Professor David Deakins, Dr Martina Battisti, Dr Banjo Roxas, and Dr Alan Coetzer (NZ Centre for SME Research, Massey University)
 Building Management Capability Through Performance Diagnostics (250KB) 
Dr Ken Simpson (Unitec) and Martyn Baker (MWB Consultancy)

Session 2

The Policy and Practice of Skill Utilisation: Bringing the intersection between productivity and skills into focus (800KB) 
Gemma Piercy (Waikato University)
Perspectives of New Trades Tutors: Boundary crossing between vocational identities (1159KB) 
Selena Chan (CPIT)

Session 3

 New Zealand's Tertiary Education Policy Compared (63KB) 
Dr Gavin Moodie (Griffith University)
Capturing Skill Utilisation: Workplace evidence in national qualifications and literacy profiles (514KB) 
Dr Heather Lees, Peter Engelbrecht, Peter Whittaker (ETITO)

Session 4

A Cost-effective method for measuring business benefits of workplace literacy learning (640KB) 
Katherine Percy (Workbase) and Ravi Kulatunga (Etc. Consulting)
Productivity Management in a response-based organisation and the relationship to training outcomes (638KB) 
Martin MacLean (FRSITO) and Keith Westwater (Westwater Hobbs)

Session 5

Useful Ways to Structure the Assessment of Learning in the Workplace (239KB) 
Dr Karen Vaughan and Marie Cameron (New Zealand Council for Educational Research)
 The Impact of Skill on New Zealand Firms: Evidence from three surveys  (267KB) 
Dr Philip Stevens and Peter Nunns (Ministry of Economic Development) Jason Timmins (Department of Labour) and Geoff Mason (National Institute of Economic and Social Research)

Session 6

What Will the Labour Market Look Like in the Future? (1631KB) 
Vij Kooleya, Richard Manning, and Dr Ram SriRamaratnam (Department of Labour)
 Does Industry Training Improve Earnings? (1474KB) 
Sarah Crichton (Department of Labour)

Session 7

Strategic Responsiveness: Increasing Maori, Pacific Peoples', Migrants, and Women's participation in the Electricity Supply industry (1619KB) 
Anne Boyd and Rose Ryan (Heathrose Research) and Doug Pouwhare (Electricity Supply ITO)
Does Investment in Tertiary Education Raise Productivity? (951KB) 
David Earle (Ministry of Education)

Session 8

 Building Leadership Through the Development of Workplace Mentoring (884KB) 
Chris Holland (Work & Education Research & Development Services)
Return on Investment from Automotive Apprenticeship Training (3565KB) 
Sharon Pells (New Zealand Institute of Economic Research) and Verna Niao (MITO)

Session 9

 Modern Apprentices' Literacy Learning (267KB) 
Professor Frank Sligo, Dr Niki Murray, and Dr Elspeth Tilley (Massey University) and Carol Atkin (Literacy Aotearoa)
Insights into Competitive Manufacturing Qualifications through exemplar case studies (1131KB) 
Greg Ellis (CMI/ Spirals Resultants)


If you have any questions about the 2010 Research Forum or would like to disucss the 2011 Forum, please contact Nicholas Huntington via email at nicholas@itf.org.nz