Posted: September 30, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Readers, ranging from a daycare class of 4- and 5-year-olds to office workers, public servants and passing pedestrians read with linked arms during NWT Literacy Week to demonstrate their passion for reading.
Posted: September 30, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
Under the project, information and communications technology employers will work with the Aboriginal Workforce Development Initiative to recruit at least 150 Aboriginal persons in New Brunswick. A focus will be providing industry-driven training to help participants prepare for future employment.
Posted: September 30, 2011 |

Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The unveiling of a new award promoting literacy innovation was among the highlights of Life Literacy Night, ABC Life Literacy Canada’s annual awards ceremony, held at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum recently.
Posted: September 29, 2011 |

Category: Learning
The Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN) requires a field development officer. The deadline for applications is October 7, 2011.
Posted: September 29, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Community Futures has been awarded $207,458 to help unemployed youth in British Columbia develop their business ideas and entrepreneurial skills.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
Regardless of how qualified you may be for the position, your chance at an interview will likely be missed if the scanning technology or human eye does not see keywords that tell them you are relevant for the job.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Organizers say the event, which will also draw decision-makers from other areas like health care, community organizations and the private sector, will be a chance to share best practices and look at promising actions.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Learning
Since Raise-A-Reader was launched nationally in 2002, the fundraising and awareness initiative has raised more than $17 million for literacy programs. On September 28, 27 Postmedia newspapers participated from coast-to-coast to raise money for programs in their own communities.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Learning
“We really want to see technology like this being used to improve teaching and learning,” said Karen Keiller, director of Information Services and Systems at UNB Saint John. “Mobile learning is just starting, and I think we’ll be seeing a lot more students using technology this year.”
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
There are many persons with disabilities all over the world who have excelled in their professions thereby proving correct the saying that disability is not inability.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
When a resumé looks too good to be true, it just might be, according to recent research from OfficeTeam. Forty-seven per cent of managers polled believe job seekers include dishonest information on their resumés somewhat or very often.
Posted: September 28, 2011 |

Category: Learning
Teachers across Canada will join more than 30 million of their colleagues around the globe marking World Teachers' Day on October 5. The national theme for this year's celebration is "Teachers: Inspiring students, awakening potential."
Posted: September 26, 2011 |

Category: Learning
Young brains soak up the information around them like tiny, too-cute sponges. That's the reason, put simply, why it is important to get children interested in reading in the early years of life.
Posted: September 26, 2011 |

Category: Learning
TVOParents.com's content is organized around three key areas that are fundamental to children's success in school and life: School and Learning; Health and Development; Social and Emotional. Themed pages are designed to easily pull and display content from across the site that is related to any one issue or topic.
Posted: September 26, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to boosting productivity but David Allen, the author of this book, and his ilk have some effective tactics you can use right now on the job.
Posted: September 26, 2011 |

Category: Learning
The guide, which will be used in high-school entrepreneurship classes, is based on the Ontario senior business studies curriculum. But from the images of smiling young Aboriginal faces on the cover, to the case studies, to the easy-to-carry-long-distances soft cover, every aspect of the book was approached with one aim in mind: to show native students that business is a subject that applies to them.
Posted: September 26, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
On average, Canadian university graduates do well over a career, earning a hefty premium above those with only secondary education. But nearly one in five – more than any other country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) – still winds up at the low end of the income scale.
Posted: September 23, 2011 |

Category: Learning
A study, titled Math Instruction that Makes Sense, produced by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is said to demonstrate conclusively that "traditional math education methods are superior to the highly ineffective, discovery-based instructional techniques that are in vogue now in educational curricula."
Posted: September 23, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
This certificate program provides training for workers in career development, employment counselling, education, workplace training and human resources to develop the competencies necessary to effectively assess and enhance the essential skills of their clients.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
During Literacy Action Week each November, Literacy Nova Scotia and individuals and organizations with an interest in supporting adult literacy concentrate on ways to inform governments and the public about literacy and essential skills in their community. Meetings with government officials, information sessions and other activities are held throughout the province.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |

Category: Learning
This study was conducted by UBC to generate evidence-based knowledge about the relationship between community development and literacy in order to inform strategic planning, policy development, and innovative action within the partner organizations.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |

Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Michael Moore kept the seriousness of his reading problem hidden for years but now the Winnipeg Transit driver is getting national attention for starting a new chapter of his life. Moore is one of 14 recipients this year of the prestigious Council of the Federation Literacy Award.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |

Category: Learning
All the data of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Documentation Centre and Library’s 30,000 online catalogue entries have been transferred during the last 12 months to UNESDOC, UNESCO’s online catalogue. Users can now either search for UIL holdings in UNESDOC – or widen their search to all UNESCO library holdings.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
There are three generations active in the contemporary workplace, and broadly speaking each has a different approach to work: baby boomers live to work, gen-Xers work to live and millennials see their work and life as undivided and so are drawn to a livelihood that aligns to what they see as their purpose in life.
Posted: September 22, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
Those who work physically apart from colleagues can suffer a sense of isolation, according to Pennsylvania’s Wharton University management department, where professors are studying work/life integration.
Posted: September 21, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
The Quebec English Literacy Alliance will launch its new Skills for Life e-Learning series in partnership with the Quebec Literacy Working Group and Community Economic Development and Employability Corp.
Posted: September 21, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“The partnerships, community liaison, social inclusion, and success stories that have grown as a result of Advanced Education’s commitment to the Bridges program is remarkable,” Rick Goodfellow, executive director of Challenge Community Vocational Alternatives, said. “We’re very happy with the results of this program.”
Posted: September 21, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
As a member and past president of the Whitehorse Rendezvous Rotary Club, Claire Derome partnered with the Yukon Literacy Coalition and was instrumental in the introduction and success of the Yukon Imagination Library. She was also involved in the creation of the Family Literacy Centre, which provides programming and resources to support literacy and essential skills for families.
Posted: September 21, 2011 |

Category: Essential skills
The Government of Yukon is investing in a new apprenticeship program at the Individual Learning Centre which will provide opportunities for youth working to complete their high school education.
Posted: September 21, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Young poets from Fall River and Truro, Nova Scotia, are winners of the Creative Writing Contest for Youth held in celebration of the International Year for People of African Descent.