The Industry Training Federation will host the New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum 2010.  Focus areas;

• Specific topics in vocational, professional, and workplace-based education and training.
• Learners, learning, and pedagogy in vocational, professional, and workplace education
• Skill utilisation.
• Dimensions of skill demand (including labour market analysis).
• Education and training policy.
• Outcomes, experiences, and perceptions of vocational, professional, and workplace education and training amongst learners, workers, firms, industries, and society.
• Approaches to conducting research on vocational, professional, and workplace-based education and training, including relevant methodologies, tools, and data sources.
• International approaches to and experiences of the above, including comparative work.