National Adult Literacy Database

I watched with pride as my daughter walked across the stage and received her GED diploma this month. Actually she got the diploma a year-and-a-half ago, but celebrated with other GED graduates at a special ceremony at the New Brunswick Community College Woodstock Campus recently.

Seventy per cent of Maritime University graduates who earned their first degree in 2003 opted to enrol in a second educational program within five years, says a report released today, June 23.

TORONTO, June 21 /CNW/ - ING DIRECT wants to get more kids and their parents talking about money and is encouraging them to visit Planet Orange(TM) (www.orangekids.ca), an interactive web experience for children using rocket ships and an outer space theme that makes learning about money entertaining and educational.

OTTAWA, June 21 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, the Assembly of First Nations National Chief, Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, launched a discussion paper entitled 'Taking Action for First Nations Post-Secondary Education: Access, Opportunities and Outcomes.'

(Toronto, ON – June 21, 2010) – Now that summer is officially here, parents and children are excited to start their summer vacation. But a summer break doesn’t mean that kids should stop reading and learning.

New Brunswick is promoting native languages and First Nations cultural identity as part of a new series of programs in its education system that aim to decrease the gap in achievement between aboriginal students and non-aboriginal students across the province.

The June 2010 issue of Statistics Canada's free online publication Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada contains one article.

A new season means new books, so here are some suggestions for cheering up, sobering down or whiling away a lazy afternoon of summer — good stuff for young people and old people.

Ottawa, June 9, 2010 - Writers and journalists Ken McGoogan and Aline Apostolska are, respectively, the newly elected Chair and Vice-Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission (PLRC).

FREDERICTON, NB - The winner of NALD's first Innovative Technology Award has taught over 8,500 undergraduate and graduate university students during the course of his 33-year teaching career at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He also works with adult learners in St. John's who need help preparing for the workforce. What is not at first apparent to those with whom he comes in contact is his own unique perspective on learning. Dr. Marc Glassman has a learning disability.

TORONTO, June 3 /CNW/ - Ministers of education across Canada responded positively to the tabling of new federal copyright legislation in Ottawa yesterday. The Copyright Consortium of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), supports the copyright legislation because it allows students and educators in elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities to have fair and reasonable access to publicly available Internet materials in their educational pursuits.

Former federal Liberal cabinet minister Claudette Bradshaw is trying to set up a school in New Brunswick that would train employers, teachers and judges to recognize and work with people who suffer from mental illnesses.