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Ottawa helping to boost economic security of women and girls on PEI
Posted: August 31, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The federal government will assist two programs on Prince Edward Island that are geared towards improving the well-being of women: Women Moving Forward to Economic Stability and Recruitment of Women into Non-Traditional Work.
Broadening the Base for Strategic Workforce Planning: The Value of Cross-Functional Partnerships
Posted: August 31, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
In 2009, The Conference Board introduced the SWP Maturity Model, a framework that shows a fairly typical evolutionary path of strategic workforce planning. The Maturity Model gives companies a yardstick for assessing their current SWP practices and knowing what the next stage of SWP maturity looks like.
The Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton has been working with Vancouver Community College (VCC) and Conestoga College (Ontario) to establish an online college certificate program in family literacy. After being piloted at VCC, this OLES-funded project is now complete and information about the program is being disseminated across Canada.
Helping BC nursing students get the education they need
Posted: August 26, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
Through the Ministry of Advanced Education’s Nurses Education Bursary, 109 students in nursing programs across British Columbia will receive a total of $218,000 in bursaries this summer.
Job posting: Communications Officer, Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN) (PDF) - Deadline to apply: September 6, 2011
Posted: August 26, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Reporting to the CEO, this position creates, manages and implements the Canadian Literacy and Learning Network’s (CLLN) communications, marketing and public relations plan.
Articles on homelessness and poverty in the Transition magazine, by the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Why has homelessness and poverty become such a serious problem in BC and Canada?
Smart Sessions for employers - Participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges faced by Canadian employers
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Smart Sessions are participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges that Canadian employers face. Each session focuses on an issue of priority to local business communities.
Essential Skills Day is coming up on September 23
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The second annual Essential Skills Day will take place on September 23, 2011 during Learn@Work Week. This day raises awareness of the nine essential skills and looks at the importance of skills training in the workplace.
Most language teachers will tell you that what you put in, is what you get out of language studies. The reality is that language acquisition is a complex process that involves communication, grammar, structure, comprehension and language production…
Modernizing Employment Insurance Delivery to Canadians
Posted: August 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The federal government announces further measures to improve processes and modernize the delivery of Employment Insurance (EI) to Canadians.
Launching the Immigrant Entrepreneur Mentorship Program - Great opportunity for ESL business owners!
Posted: August 24, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The Business Link and its funding partners are pleased to announce an Alberta-wide initiative to promote immigrant entrepreneurs…
What words do you think belong in the Oxford dictionary?
Posted: August 23, 2011 |
Category: Learning
From unfortunate sartorial styles to a new form of online harassment, the latest words entering the Oxford Dictionary are decidedly modern.
Government of Canada moving forward with its low-tax plan for jobs and growth
Posted: August 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The draft legislative proposals would: support families and communities; invest in education and training; Support job creation and entrepreneurship; and preserve Canada’s fiscal integrity.
Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC) launches Essential Skills website and Assessment tool
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC) announces the official launch of their Essential Skills website and assessment tool. All tools and assessments on the website are available in both French and English.
ABC Life Literacy Canada's new Financial Literacy Week website coming soon
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The interactive website brings Canadians into the financial literacy discussion encouraging them to share their insights, review video posts from Gail Vaz-Oxlade and others as well as watch our online photo gallery grow as Canadians take their promise to see how one small change can add up.
Aboriginal Literacy Camp wraps up: Camp successful in preventing summer reading loss
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Last Friday marked the end of a pilot project in Mistawasis First Nation which introduced literacy camps to over 300 young campers. By using fun, literacy-related activities such as Balloon Relay and Mannequin Mania…
Ottawa expanded the key role it plays in helping foreign trained skilled workers succeed in Canada
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
“We want newcomers to be able to use their skills as soon as possible in Canada and work to their full potential,” said Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. “It’s good for them and good for the Canadian economy.
Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament raised more than $1.35 million for adult literacy in New Brunswick during the past 10 years
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Learning
"Funds raised by activities related to the Peter Gzowski Invitational in New Brunswick are an excellent way of supporting community adult learning programs, family literacy programs and the purchase of books and equipment for adult learning classrooms," said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe.
Liven up your Math lessons with some great free iPod Touch apps for your students to use in class. These are apps you can count on!
Language and culture are often lumped together, as if they were one in the same. But does learning another language really make you any less racist?
Agreement helps ensure clean energy, lower rates, good jobs in Nova Scotia
Posted: August 19, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The Lower Churchill project is part of the jobsHere plan to grow Nova Scotia's economy.
It’s the most dangerous game you can play with a job offer: reject it. Bluff. Tell them to add a couple pounds to the paycheque if they want your services.
One in four workers will be 55 and over by 2021: StatsCan
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canada's labour force is aging rapidly and by the year 2021 as many as one in four workers could be age 55 or over, according to a recent report by Statistics Canada.
The library will also have an area called "Readability," which will have all the audio books, videos, a special computer who have print disabilities that will read the print to them from the screen.
Ottawa supports Association Francophone des Parents du Nouveau-Brunswick
Posted: August 18, 2011 |
Category: Learning
This funding will allow the AFPNB to undertake activities to recognize and promote the role and commitment of Francophone parents in minority communities. Through its work with parents and communities, the organization promotes an educational, community, and family environment that is conducive to the personal development of children and their families.
Government of Canada helps Montreal’s Youth Employment Services pursue its efforts to support their mentoring programs
Posted: August 17, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
This assistance will enable YES to continue offering services, including personalized counselling, business management training, networking and mentoring programs, to help the region’s youth in their efforts to start up a business.
ABC Life Literacy Canada newest Life Literacy Ambassador unveiled
Posted: August 17, 2011 |
Category: Learning
ABC Life Literacy Canada held the official announcement of its newest Life Literacy Ambassador, paralympic athlete Paul Rosen, on Tuesday, August 16, 2011.
Workplace crisis calls hit new highs during summer months
Posted: August 16, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Many Canadians look eagerly each summer to taking a vacation and enjoying the weather or a trip, but studies show a large portion of workers still don't take their allocated vacation time away from the office. It appears to be leading to higher stress and anxiety levels.
Brace yourself for interview questions with no simple answers
Posted: August 16, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Skilled interviewers will ask open-ended questions to get at what makes you tick, to probe your personality, your work ethic and other hard-to-quantify traits.
Meetings sucking the life out of organizations: opinion
Posted: August 16, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Meetings are taking over our businesses and keeping us from getting the work done, argues writer Mitch Joel, president of Twist Image.
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