National Adult Literacy Database

Continuous learning has a ripple effect, not only for learners but for teachers and the communities in which they reside. Each year at this time, the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) joins literacy and essential skills organizations from across Canada to celebrate Adult Learners’ Week.

The National Adult Literacy Database has extended the nomination process for its fourth annual Innovation Technology Award. Submissions will now be accepted until April 15, 2013.

The Sydney Tar Ponds project celebrated Nova Scotia women's leadership in the trades and technology fields at a special symposium recently. About 100 people, including representatives from local businesses, not-for-profit organizations and education, attended the event which featured networking, discussions and presentations from women working in trades and technologies.

The survey provides LES workers with a unique opportunity to speak about their own experience and reality as a member of that workforce. It is part of a larger study that will allow CLLN to provide a picture of the demographics of Literacy and Essential Skills practitioners as well as what kinds of work they do, where they do it and how they do it.

Marty Warren, United Steelworkers Director for Atlantic Canada and Ontario, said workers and communities deserve greater commitment and co-operation from the company and federal and provincial governments to revive the Nova Forge plant and to provide greater support for industry as a whole.

Look at any community college application list, and more often than not, you’ll find a sizable contingent of university graduates. The thought that a university degree is the ticket to instant career success is creating a backlash in Canada.

Students learn about agriculture by reading books about farming, watching videos and meeting with farmers and other agricultural representatives. An important element to the success of the agriculture literacy week program is the connection between students and local farmers and agriculture industry representatives.

Pat Salt, a learning support strategist based in Calgary, has a new approach to learning that constitutes a major shift in thinking when it comes to essential skills. She presented her views at Made in the North, a unique pan-territorial forum for exploring effective approaches to adult literacy and skills development.