Monday, October 31, 2016

New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum - presentations now online

Presentations from the NZ VET Research forum are now available via the forum's website.

As an adjunct to Day ONE and Day TWO notes taken during the conference, here are brief overviews of relevant concurrent presentations I missed out on attending below.

What is the value of Youth Guarantee Fees Free? with Adelaide Reid from The collaborative. Summarised surveys and interviews with Youth Gaurantee 2015 participants. A longitudinal study from 2016 - 2018 to find out outcomes from attending YG programmes at community colleges, YMCA and Unitec. At start, YG's perspective was to obtain employment post programme, qualifications were less important. What worked and didnt work were summarised. Will be interesting to see how this project progresses as the study continues.

Work integrated learning in STEM: employers' perspectives presented by Georgina Atkinson from the NCVER. An Australian perspective - full report.

Exploring student perception of learning in a work-integrated learning environment presented by Chantal Pillay from Le Cordon Bleu. Background on programme and structure of WIL.Findings feed back into curriculum planning.

Pacific Learner success in workplace setting: supporting effective intervention with Caroline Harris from Service IQ, Iani Nemani from Competenz and Joel Rewa-Morgan from Career Force with interim findings / emerging results from an Ako Aotearoa National funding project.

Mike Styles from Primary ITO and Dr. Lesley Petersen From Petersen Consulting present on on-going work to support adults with dyslexia in training and workplace environments. Primary ITO link to case study. With report on Ako Aotearoa hub funded project.


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