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As a consequence of growing concern about the training of those responsible for the care of older people and the provision of residential care in New Zealand, an allocation of funds was made available by the government to promote curricula development and coordinated training programs on residential care for older people. This paper describes and comments upon the subsequent development and implementation of a series of nationally prescribed, competency-based courses for training rest home staff. The research team, working from a training needs analysis established a philosophy, aims, competencies and skills with the resultant eight competencies based on a broad set of inter-related attitudinal, intellectual and psychomotor skills. A competencies and skills chart, together with a skills development profile, were developed using the desired outcomes as a starting point. Show less

This paper describes the New Zealand experience in the training of technicians. Against a background of years of neglect, lack of awareness and an absence of policy coordination by employers, government and the technical institute system, the Vocational Training Council carried out a project to establish a foundation for future developments in technician training. The issues which emerged from the project relate to (1) the question of supply and demand (2) the variations in sector growth (3) the changing skills required of the technician workforce and the implications for pre-entry training and (4) the most appropriate delivery systems for ongoing training and retraining. Show less