National Adult Literacy Database

Many parents are no doubt wondering how they can help their children ease out of summertime media habits. In addition to having to establish new rules for media use, parents may also face a barrage of requests and questions from their kids regarding digital technology. Here are some good guidelines for dealing with media issues.

Literacy is more than just reading and writing. Being literate helps you make sense of your world. Literacy also means lifelong learning. And what better place to start than at the library?

Through a competitive process, the Sectoral Initiatives Program will fund partnership-based projects that are national in scope and that support the development of labour market intelligence to help address skills shortages in key sectors of Canada’s economy.

A career coach says if you do a good job presenting yourself in your résumé and all other related career marketing communications, your title will not be the show-stopping issue you think it to be.

Seventy per cent of Ontario high school students say that learning how to manage their personal finances is important or very important, according to a new study from the Investor Education Fund, a leading Canadian authority on financial literacy, financial education and research.

Helen Balanoff, executive director of the NWT Literacy Council and a member of the NALD Board of Directors, has been honoured with a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The author of the book 'The Five Dysfunctions of a Team' looks at what can make teams in the workplace highly dysfunctional. He then presents ideas on how to move from a dysfunctional team to a highly functional one, by working through the dysfunctional areas.

Books range from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to business, spirituality to local themes and everything in between. Each author has donated a copy of his or her book to Project Literacy and will be on hand to sign copies of their books.

Nova Scotians working in apprenticeships out West are scrambling after the provincial government accidentally discovered it cannot credit apprenticeship hours earned outside the province. The problem comes to light just as Nova Scotia is trying to find a way to boost its flagging apprenticeship completion rates.

Literacy programs from Bhutan, Indonesia, Colombia and Rwanda are the winners of UNESCO’s literacy prizes for 2012. Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has announced the laureates upon the recommendation of an international jury. The awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held on September 6, as part of celebrations for International Literacy Day September 8.

Random House of Canada Limited has announced the debut of its ground-breaking online magazine and an e-books originals program as key components of its innovative new corporate digital publishing strategy.

In December 2009, the N.B. Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour published Working Together for Adult Literacy: An Adult Literacy Strategy for New Brunswick. Subsequent to the release of the strategy, an action plan was developed. This document reports on the achievements, progress and challenges experienced within the strategic priorities during the first phase of the plan.

"Over 40 per cent of Albertans do not have the literacy skills to fully participate in life, at work, at home, and in their community. This needs to be addressed, and with the wealth of economic, physical, and human resources in the province, indeed it should. If Alberta cannot take the lead, then who?" -- Literacy Alberta

According to a survey of 1,180 Ontario high school students in grades 10 and 11, commissioned by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, tomorrow's college and university students are decidedly job-focused today.

The theme of International Literacy Day 2012 is Literacy and Peace. This theme was adopted by the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) to demonstrate the multiple uses and value that literacy brings to people.