The 12th annual New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum (21-22 October, 2015), attracted over 160 attendees from across education, government and industry/stakeholder groups. The forum is dedicated specifically to research on career-, work-, and skills-oriented education and training. The programme for this year's forum included a wide range of presentations and panels, including sessions exploring outcomes and success factors for vocational education and training (VET), the use of new technologies, identities, literacy and numeracy, and 'core' skills. Keynote addresses we
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The 12th annual New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum (21-22 October, 2015), attracted over 160 attendees from across education, government and industry/stakeholder groups. The forum is dedicated specifically to research on career-, work-, and skills-oriented education and training. The programme for this year's forum included a wide range of presentations and panels, including sessions exploring outcomes and success factors for vocational education and training (VET), the use of new technologies, identities, literacy and numeracy, and 'core' skills. Keynote addresses were given by two international speakers: Borhene Chakroun from the Youth, Literacy, and Skills Development Section of UNESCO and Michael Davis from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).
Keynote addresses were as follows: Skills for work and life: UNESCO's vision for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) / Borhene Chakroun; A UK perspective on growth through people / Michael Davis. Plenary sessions were: Social and economic outcomes from vocational education / David Earle, Linda Cameron, Josh Williams; Changing identities in vocational education / Karen Vaughan, Selena Chan, Lisa Maurice-Takerei.
The presentations were as follows: Learning, life and work / Anne Alkema, Heather McDonald, Nicky Murray; Tertiary education in a rural area: using the community to increase the pool of educated local social workers / Bree Davis, Melanie Wong; Getting it done: utilising women's skills in the workforce: research driving results / Jo Cribb; Shifting sands: embedding mobile technology into vocational education / Lee Baglow, Christopher Lovegrove; Video and self-assessment in an undergraduate midwifery degree programme: a process of assessment and reflection / Carolyn McIntosh; Pacific learner success in workplace setting: progress overview / Peter Scanlan, Joel Rewa-Morgan; Got questions?: VOCEDplus has answers / Kelly Frazer; Developing critical thinking skills for industry trainees / Nicky Murray, Cushla Wilson; The biographical relevance of apprenticeships / Antje Handelmann; Workplace mentoring / Sandra Johnson, Lee Pennock; Defining and recognising soft skills ... as relevant to employability and intervention / Mandy McGirr; Embedding literacy and numeracy in industry training: practices, progress and challenges 2009-2014 / Heather McDonald and Anne Alkema; Engineering E2E / Megan Rodden; Implementation of learning interventions to support learners with dyslexia / Mike Styles; Toru Project: creating relationships and futures through vocational education / Kylie Taffard, Joel Rewa-Morgan.
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