19th National VET Research Conference [program and proceedings]

Keynote presentations: The [National Skill Development Corporation] NSDC challenge: skilling 150 million persons by 2022: opportunities for collaboration and cooperation [The skill development challenge: India as a case study] / Dilip Chenoy; Key sucess factors to Indigenous pre-employment training / Linda Howard; Has equity’s time come for VET?: how can we embed it into the system? / Trevor Gale. Presentations: The VET workforce: a study / David Kalisch; Breaking down the barriers for apprentices with a learning disability / Sandra Cotton; Developing soft skills in Malaysian polytechnics / Riam Chau Mai; Re-skilling for ‘encore careers’ / Jane Figgis; The e-learning experiences of young professionals / Sophie Carter; Profiling the Australian enterprise [registered training organisation] RTO / John Churchill; Leading change: vision to reality: a study of the [professional development] PD strategy: QLD VET sector / Sonia Davies and Mark Harris; Work-based learning in Malaysia’s community colleges / Yusri Bin Kamin; Does mandatory training work?: investigating compulsory pre-site training certification in the WA construction industry / Llandis Barratt-Pugh, Susanne Bahn; Research into practice: e-learning champions / Tim Riessen; VET and innovation in the mining, solar energy and games industries / Robert Dalitz; Blind date: potential partnerships between literacy teachers and community service workers / Ann Leske; Perspectives of new trades tutors on becoming teachers / Selena Chan; Measuring training activity in Australia: taking the statistical standard forward / Sandra Pattison and Sarah Alliston; The [recognition of prior learning] RPL skills express toolkit: a quality ‘no frills’ electronic recognition tool for VET / Narelle Goiser; Skills shortages in the trades during economic downturns / Damian Oliver; The Diploma of Nursing: an evaluation of the pilot program / Annelieske Noteboom; Getting our hands dirty: participation in a trades community of practice / Brett Hoggard and Tom Colley; The challenges of developing a competency-based national degree / Amanda Torr; What is practical, sustainable and effective leadership development at [Canberra Institute of Technology] CIT? / Coralie Daniels; Initial VET teacher training: a picture wrapped up in a larger landscape / Hugh Guthrie; Skills for a service economy / Lynn Van Der Wagen; Mechanisms for knowledge transfer in Australian international VET activities / Mohammad Ali Rahimi and Helen Smith; Policy coordination: an analysis of issues / Noela Eddington and Ian Eddington; An investigation of academic self-regulation in 18-25 year olds in VET / Christine Leveris; The quality of VET teaching: a work in progress / Emma Curtin; Does VET support worker transformations? / Maree Keating; The nexus of international education and tourism / Hugh Wilkins; Reducing churn?: a case study in local government / Kath Curry; Enterprise agreements in the new tertiary environment: a Victorian experience / Jan Newmarch; How do casual TAFE teachers learn how to teach? / Susanne Francisco; Learning in the TAFE environment: a study of student perception / Bruce Paulsen; Identifying disadvantage: using statistics to design more needs-based programs / Barbara Cram; Many sources of bright ideas: developing TAFE staff capability / Carol-Anne Blecich; The effectiveness of the traineeships model / Davinia Blomberg; Measures of success: predicting module completion rates / Jeanette Learned; Making behaviours the measure for success in oil and gas safety training / Alf Standen; Men learning and changing with age / Barry Golding; Creating synergies not silos … towards holistic professional education / Barbara Combes; Bridging the divide: the challenges and solutions around e-assessment as voiced by practitioners and auditors / Annie Fergusson; Learning in the service sector to deliver education in the regions / Moira Scerri; Putting industry into the articulation pricture: the [integrated articulation and credit transfer] IACT project / Di Paez; Kaupapa whanau: building learning communities on common interest / Hinemoa Priest and Amanda Torr; Ensuring quality outcomes in library technician education / Dianne Walton-Sonda; Steering the road (map) to lifelong learning and lifelong learner records / Allison Miller; Getting to know [National Centre for Vocational Education Research] NCVER workshop: finding and using data and research / Sandra Pattison, Sarah Alliston, Hugh Guthrie, Georgina Atkinson, Damian Oliver, Ashlea Bartram, Francesca Beddie and Davinia Blomberg.

Pech Kucha sessions: TAA … the friendly way? / Berwyn Clayton; What are the literacy and numeracy support needs of vocational education lecturers? / Wendy Kennedy; Supporting the transition from practice to research: a change management perspective / Andrew Vodic; Measuring the ‘unmeasurable’ benefits of literacy training / Rachael McMahon; [Victoria University] VU College: the journey so far … / Sally-Anne Wilkinson; Narrowing the gap between engineering education and practice / Shi Siong Ang; Groundhog day revisited / Kristine Deutschmann; The mermaid approach: a new approach to student services for learners with disability / Samantha O’Connor; NCVER new researcher presents / Geri Pancini. Show less