A skilled and productive New Zealand
Industry training is all about meeting the skill needs of industry, helping people develop their careers and assisting New Zealand businesses and organisations to be more productive.
On this site you can find out more about industry skill development and workplace learning, including the latest news, where to contact an ITO, and what industry training can do for you, whether you are an employer, already in work, or want to know what kinds of skills you might need to get into an industry.
You can also find out about events we are running, see photos of recent events, or more about us, the Industry Training Federation. Finally, if you want to know more, you can send us a message or find out how to contact us.
NZ Secondary-Tertiary Transitions Forum - 1 Oct 2010
The ITF is delighted to host the first New Zealand Secondary-Tertiary
Transitions Forum on 1 October 2010, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in
Wellington. This one-day forum will feature presentations from the
schools and tertiary sectors, as well as government and key sector
groups on the critical issue of transitions from senior secondary school
into tertiary education, training, and employment.
There is
currently a tremendous focus on the need for more young people to stay
in education and make successful transitions. This Forum will provide
the opportunity for all the key players to come together to discuss how
the sector can help young people to make valuable and well-informed
decisions, and how we can have a more co-ordinated and coherent approach
to giving young people the skills they need to succeed in life and
work.
Confirmed topics for the forum include standards and
curriculum alignment, Youth Guarantee, Sectoral Pathways, Trades
Academies, and Tertiary Colleges. Full details of the Forum program, and information on how to register for the Forum are available here:
Forum Information and Registration
Good Practice in Workplace Assessment Structures
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One of the most distinctive elements of industry training is its significant use of ‘on-job' learning - learning that occurs and is assessed in the workplace. In on-job environments, workplace assessors play a key role in the learning that takes place through industry training. As well as ensuring a trainee possesses the skills and knowledge required to be competent against a particular standard, assessors often have additional roles and can be responsible for mentoring, peer education, and similar training activities. Good workplace assessment systems and structures are therefore critical to well-functioning learning. Over the past year and a half, the ITF Research Network has comissioned researchers from the NZ Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to undertake research into the structures that ITOs use for workplace assessment. This project, funded through Ako Aotearoa's National Project Fund, has culminated in the production of a 'Good Practice Guide' that articulates four principles for ITOs to keep in mind when thinking about the structures and processes they use to arrange and organise assessment in the workplace. |
Assessment Structures Good Practice Guide
Identifying and Reporting the Value Added from Training
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The Industry Training Federation, with the Extractives ITO, the Horticulture ITO, the Seafood ITO, and the Service Industries Training Alliance (represented by the Hospitality Standards Institute) have been undertaking a project examining how to capture and report data on the contribution of training to firm performance. Funded through the Tertiary Education Commission's Encouraging and Supporting Innovation Fund, the Identifying and Reporting the Value Added from Training project involves trialling in other sectors a methodology used by the Agriculture ITO to identify the impact of their training. The Project Team has contracted Agriculture Services Limited to undertake this work. All four sector reports from this project are now available, along with an overview of project findings and themes. The final output of this project will be a capstone report discussing how to realise the potential value of skill investment. Download copies of the sector and overview reports:
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New Zealand ITOs deliver significant value for individuals, employers and industries, and for taxpayers. This booklet outlines the value delivered by ITOs, and identifies how ITOs could add yet further value if policy and regulatory issues were addressed.
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Other key publications available here