National Conference

The 2011 ACPET National Conference was held in Brisbane on 25 - 26 August.  Conference papers from those presenters that have made them available to us will be posted here shortly.
 

2010 ACPET National Conference

The 2010 ACPET Conference was held on 26 & 27 August 2010 in Melbourne at the Crown Promenade.

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2009 ACPET National Conference
 

- Leading Learning in Times of Change

The ACPET National Conference was held 27 to 29 August 2009, at the National Convention Centre, Canberra, ACT

Below are links to the presentations that have been made available to us by the presenters. Please note that some presentations have not been made available because the speaker did not have a powerpoint presentation or for intellectual property reasons. 

• Opening Address - Andrew Smith, CEO, ACPET
• Economic Update - Alan Oster, Group Chief Economist, National Australia Bank
• Driving Reform and Sustainability - Philip Bullock, Chair, Skills Australia
• Education amid the Great Recession - Chris Richardson, Director, Access Economics
• Panel: Leading Learning in Time of Change - Tom Karmel, NCVER (global skills crunch); Mark McCrindle; and Rod Jones, Navitas
• Panel: Managing Quality Through Regulation — Priorities and possibilities - Claire Field, NARA; Chris Whitton, ACT Department of Education and Training; and Dr George Brown, Think: Education Group
• Paper Has Its Price: Reducing your costs with online applications - Roger Bendall, Studylink
• Learning Live in a Virtual Classroom - Ken Gooding, Senior E-learning Consultant, e-Works with Yellow Edge/Elluminate
• Education City: Creating a new horizon for global education - Jim Varghese, Executive Director (Health & Education City), Springfield Land Corporation
• The New Deal: Service Industries: Towards a better workforce development - Kit McMahon, General Manager, Service Skills Australia
• Transitions of Young People to Work Through Authentic Employment-based Training - Terry O’Hanlon-Rose, Principal and CEO, Australian Technical College, North Brisbane
• The Innovation Agenda and Training - Patricia Neden, Chief Executive Officer Innovation and Business Skills Australia
• Connecting the Tertiary Sector - Di Booker, Principal Policy Officer, Australian Qualifications Framework Council Secretariat, SA
• Benchmarking for a Better Bottom Line - John Somerset, Somerset Education
• Panel: Organisational Change Through Social Media - Anni Rowland Campbell, Fuji Xerox Australia, Darren Sharp, Collabforge and Chris Evason, International Education Services Ltd
• Innovative approaches to contextual learning in Hospitality - Graham Staples, Managing Director, Futura Training
• Panel: Social Inclusion — Making a difference - Claire Field, A/g Chief Executive Officer, TVET Australia
• Panel: Social Inclusion — Making a difference - Dr Tom Stehlik, Associate Dean, Research Education, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, School of Education, Uni SA
• Panel: Social Inclusion — Making a difference - Tony Khatle, CEO, Association of Private Providers of Education, Training and Development (APPETD), South Africa
• International education, the private sector and the student voice: what our clients tell us - Kevin Brett, i-graduate Australia and Steve Quirk, International Engagement, ACPET
• Education Agents and Training Providers - Gavin Hopper, ICEF Australia
• E-portfolios: Thinking outside the square - Allison Miller, E-portfolios Business Manager for the Australian Flexible Learning Framework and Lesley Wemyss, Managing Director, Crestfern Pty Ltd
• E-portfolios: Thinking outside the square - Lesley Wemyss, Managing Director, Crestfern Pty Ltd
• Teaching and Training Todays Learners - Mark McCrindle
• Developing Skills for the New Economy - Professor Rupert Maclean, Chair Professor of International Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Platinum Partner Insight: Environmentally Friendly and Wallet Friendly New Printing Ideas - Peter Jenkins, Commercial Business Manager, Fuji Xerox Australia
• Panel: Education for Sustainable Development — Opportunities and challenges - Prof Robin Kramar, Deputy Dean and Professor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management
• Panel: Education for Sustainable Development — Opportunities and challenges - Professor Rupert Maclean, Chair Professor of International Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Panel: The Black Hole — Where are all the future leaders coming from? - Sharon Bell, Senior Program Developer, LH Martin Institute;
• Doing Business Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Going Global - Ornica Mukhavhuli, Chair, Association of Private Providers of Education, Training and Development (APPETD), South Africa
• Doing Business Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Going Global - Dr Andrew Chua, President, Association of Private Schools and Colleges (APSC), Singapore
• Doing Business Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Going Global - Chuck Wareham, Executive Director, New Zealand Association of Private Education Providers (NZAPEP), New Zealand
• New Promotional Opportunities with TOE FL® iBT - Helen Cook, TOEFL, ETS Global Division
• An Overview of the New Zealand New Quality Assurance Framework System - Dr Mike Roberts, PTE sector member of the EAG and Vice President of NZAPEP
• How to Give a ‘Green Tinge’ to Your Organisation - Wendy Perry, Wendy Perry and Associates Pty Ltd