National Adult Literacy Database

The Government of Canada has officially launched Canada Summer Jobs 2012, creating thousands of job opportunities for students.

Statistics Canada will use 2011 census results to shine a spotlight on gradual but profound shifts in this aging country – one where the elderly will soon outweigh children as a share of the population and there will be difficulty finding sufficient younger workers to replace those ready to retire.

The Montreal symposium April 12-13, 2012, explores competencies for training and development professionals in an interactive and intimate setting designed to ensure you’ll learn as much from your co-participants as you will from the program.

In this e-communiqué, CLO explores the definition of independence – as a goal path in Ontario’s adult literacy field and as an integrated part of other provincial and national initiatives.

Not all francophone minority communities carry the same weight or have the same institutional support. “On the Acadian peninsula of New Brunswick and in certain regions of Ontario, people can easily obtain services in French. They have institutional support whereas in British Columbia it takes people a long time to obtain services in French. It is important to make that distinction,” says Yvon Laberge, a member of the NALD Board of Directors.

Summer Institute 2012 will consolidate the learning from the last three years, examine several models of WLES that have been effective in specific contexts and ask how and why they worked, and why so few transfer well in other settings. Early registration is recommended.

Randstad Canada, a leader for staffing, recruitment and HR Services, says it's important for job seekers to use the power of social media as a viable tool to find employment or advance their careers.

For young people today, it's more and more common to study multiple languages as many careers require not just one foreign language, but two or even more. Education First is responding to this trend by opening four new language schools across Europe and offering a special study program for accelerated multilingual learning.

This set of practice tests is one of the resources for a 40-hour course developed to train people for jobs in water/wastewater treatment facilities.