Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
  • The Nature of this Report
  • Responsibility for Education
• Demographic Overview
• Policy, Legislation, and Financing
  • Policy and Legislation.
  • Financing Adult Education
    • Public Funding
    • Private Financing
• Quality of Adult Learning and Education: Provision, Participation, and Achievement
  • Provision of Adult Learning and Education and Institutional Frameworks
    • Adult Basic Education, Literacy, and Additional Language Programs
    • Workplace and Employment Education and Training
    • The Roles of Universities and Colleges
  • Participation
    • The International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey
    • Adult Learners in the Jurisdictions
    • Adult Education and Training Survey
  • Monitoring and Evaluating Programs and Assessing Learner Outcomes
  • Status and Training of Adult Educators and Facilitators
• Research, Innovation, and Good Practice
  • Research Studies
  • Innovation and Best Practice
• Adult Literacy
  • Literacy Levels and Participation
  • Adult Literacy Policies and Practices
• Challenges for Adult Learning and Education and Expectations for CONFINTEA VI
  • Issues in Adult Learning and Education
  • Expectations for CONFINTEA VI
• Appendix A – Sources used for the Preparation of the CONFINTEA VI Report for Canada
  • Provincial and Territorial Education and Training Department and Ministry Web Sites
  • Pan-Canadian Links
  • Departments of the Government of Canada
  • Nongovernmental and Private Organizations
  • Documents
• Appendix B – Education in Canada
  • Responsibility for Education
  • Elementary and Secondary Education
  • post-secondary Education
  • Vocational Education and Training
  • Adult Education
  • Technology in Education
  • Activities of the Government of Canada
  • The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
  • Ministerial Priorities
  • Publications