Skills Education

Join us for a Community of Learning-type discussion on issues relevant to RPL Assessors.

These live events are an automatic inclusion for RPL Matters membership subscribers and occasionally, are open to non-members to register for an entry fee.

This Live Meet Up (LMU)

Day: Friday 5 September 2025

Time: 1pm AEST (Qld time)

Topic: Discover how work-based training happens in the construction and infrastructure industries in New Zealand

This session welcomes guest speaker Jackie Messam.

Jackie has recently completed a ConCOVE Tūhara funded project to discover how work-based training happens in the construction and infrastructure industries in New Zealand. Apprentices typically spend around 70% of their time (or more) learning on-job, but how are work-based trainers identified and supported? At this event, she'll be sharing her findings, recommendations and ideas for recognising and supporting work-based trainers across different industries.

Topics:

• Who is training our apprentices?
• Why do they choose to do it? 
• What skills and knowledge are needed to become an effective work-based trainer?
• A framework to easily recognise and support effective work-based training.
• Opportunities for tertiary education providers to better support employers with training.
• Suggestions for employers about how to encourage a training mindset at work.
• Existing (and often free!) training solutions that will support employers and work-based trainers.

Note: ConCOVE Tūhara is one of two Centres of Vocational Excellence set up by the NZ government in 2020 to support the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE).

LMUs are a benefit of RPL Matters membership. The event will be recorded; to see the recording you must be an RPL Matters membership subscriber.

RPL Matters is Skills Education's Community of Learning about Recognition of Prior Learning.

For this event, Education Matters members are gifted automatic entry.