National Adult Literacy Database

The Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton has been working with Vancouver Community College (VCC) and Conestoga College (Ontario) to establish an online college certificate program in family literacy. After being piloted at VCC, this OLES-funded project is now complete and information about the program is being disseminated across Canada.

The second annual Essential Skills Day will take place on September 23, 2011 during Learn@Work Week. This day raises awareness of the nine essential skills and looks at the importance of skills training in the workplace.

From unfortunate sartorial styles to a new form of online harassment, the latest words entering the Oxford Dictionary are decidedly modern.

The interactive website brings Canadians into the financial literacy discussion encouraging them to share their insights, review video posts from Gail Vaz-Oxlade and others as well as watch our online photo gallery grow as Canadians take their promise to see how one small change can add up.

Liven up your Math lessons with some great free iPod Touch apps for your students to use in class. These are apps you can count on!

Many Canadians look eagerly each summer to taking a vacation and enjoying the weather or a trip, but studies show a large portion of workers still don't take their allocated vacation time away from the office. It appears to be leading to higher stress and anxiety levels.

The trend toward working beyond the age of 65 is most pronounced in B.C., where 25 per cent of workers plan to stay in the workforce beyond that age, according to a Conference Board of Canada survey released earlier this year. Nationally, the number was 21 per cent.

Following three consecutive months of increases, employment was little changed in July. The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage points to 7.2 per cent, as fewer people participated in the labour market.

The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada’s Educators’ Forum on Aboriginal Education will bring together a wide range of stakeholders in Aboriginal education to talk about what works for Aboriginal learners in early-childhood education and K–12 education.

Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax will host a series of speakers, workshops and public events this fall and next winter that will examine the question: “How do we read the world?" Titled ‘Literacy as Ways of Knowing,’ the series will explore the many ways literacy is interpreted, how it is defined, what it looks and sounds like, and how various forms and mediums of literacy affect our lives.

Canadian employers have started lifting their feet from the brakes they applied in the wake of the recession, according to two indexes which show a steady increase in recruitment and staffing levels.