New Zealand Association

for Cooperative Education

5th Annual NZACE Conference

Theme: Education and work partnerships for the knowledge economy

Location: Wellington, March 21-22, 2002

Proceedings (pdf)

Papers and presenters

• Opening remarks
  Steve Mahary, Associate Minster for Education (Tertiary Education)



• How do we define ourselves? Towards a New Zealand perspective on cooperative education
  Chris Eames and Richard K. Coll, University of Waikato



• Employers' ranking of graduate competencies: The science and technology perspective
  Dave Hodges, Richard K. Coll and Karsten Zegwaard,
  UNITEC Institute of Technology and University of Waikato



• Student-employer contracts in the cooperative education workplace
  Malcom Wieck, Christchurch Polytechnic



• Science and technology students' ranking of graduate competencies
  Karsten Zegwaard, Richard K. Coll and Dave Hodges,
  University of Waikto and UNITEC Institute of Technology



• Balancing the on and offline components: Meeting student needs in a work-based learning environment
  Mae McSporran and Carolyn King, UNITEC Institute of Technology



• Assessment options for work experience schemes
  Nicola Beentjes, ETITO



• Keeping the balance: Academic project requirements versus industry project requirements
  Frina Albertyn, Eastern Institute of Technology



• Can experiences from the teaching profession inform assessment practice for other work-based learning programs?
  Sheila Grainger, Richard K. Coll and Neil Taylor, Christchurch College of Education (Nelson Campus), University of Waikato, and University of Leicester



• Industry-based projects in information systems: Integrating theory and practice at the leading edge of the knowledge economy
  Kay Fielden and Andy Williamson, UNITEC Institute of Technology



• Using a portfolio as an assessment tool linking theory to practicum in pre-service teacher education
  Alison Ayrton, Christchurch College of Education



• Sporting best-practice: An industry view of work placements
  Leslie Ferkins, UNITEC Institute of Technology



• Practice is as practice does: Portfolios that shape and demonstrate professional practice
  Liz Jones, Victoria University



• Who needs placement coordinators, what difference do they make anyway?
  Kath Seton, UNITEC Institute of Technology



• International placements
  Katharine Hoskyn, Auckland University of Technology



• Skills for the knowledge economy: The marketing student
  Kamal Ghose, Christchurch College of Education



• Education and work partnerships: Educating the gatekeepers
  Annette Sachtleben and Shona Guy, Auckland University of Technology



• Closing address
  Paul Williams, Executive Director, Industry Training Organization