National Adult Literacy Database

Media Awareness Network (MNet) today released e-Parenting Tutorial: Keeping up with your kids' online activities, an online resource to help parents better understand and become actively involved in their children's online lives.

The Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Jackson Lafferty, tabled the Northwest Territories Aboriginal Languages Plan – A Shared Responsibility document earlier today in the Legislative Assembly.

Schools could boost students’ performance by simply changing the font used in teaching materials.

The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) is deeply concerned about a new paper published by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) on promoting more university differentiation. The paper, titled The Benefits of Greater Differentiation of Ontario's University Sector, seeks to outline a model for encouraging a broader variety of missions among the province's universities.

"I am very interested in different narrative threads and this idea that nothing ever completely finishes or ends and all things continue," Robin Brass says.

While several of Ontario's 20 universities are internationally ranked, pressures on the postsecondary system are palpable. Increased enrollment is jeopardizing the range and quality of programs while a changing labour market demands postsecondary credentials.

Undergraduate students are generally supportive of the government taking a more active role in transforming Ontario's universities to better balance the system-wide demands for a high-quality and accessible learning environment with the capacity to undertake research.

Two years after the Prime Minister offered a formal apology to the survivors of Canada’s native residential schools, many Canadians would be shocked to learn the legislation governing education on most reserves remains the Indian Act of 1867.

Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, is bringing some of the nation’s most respected education experts to the offices, classrooms and homes of teachers and school leaders this year.

Literacy Alberta is a provincial coalition and a nonprofit organization that works toward increasing the literacy levels in the province.

The use of oracy to promote interest in and the achievement of literacy has a long history. Writing in 1908, Edmund Burke Huey made the point that “meaning inheres in this spoken language and belongs but secondarily to the printed symbols.”

Research income growth at Canada's Top 50 universities slowed in Fiscal 2009, according to Canada's Top 50 Research Universities List 2010, released today by Research Infosource Inc. Total sponsored research income, which includes both government and non-government sources, grew by only 3.0% - half the rate of last year - to $6.24 billion in Fiscal 2009, up from $6.06 billion in Fiscal 2008.

The much anticipated "human book" collection has been unveiled for Toronto Public Library's first Human Library, an opportunity for Torontonians to walk in someone else's shoes for a few minutes and see beyond labels and begin to celebrate differences.

Welcome to the new LearningHUB website!

The October issue of Literacy Nova Scotia’s eNews includes information about LNS’s annual general meeting and an Adult Learner Institute, both planned for November.