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.

Why has homelessness and poverty become such a serious problem in BC and Canada?

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.

"Funds raised by activities related to the Peter Gzowski Invitational in New Brunswick are an excellent way of supporting community adult learning programs, family literacy programs and the purchase of books and equipment for adult learning classrooms," said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe.

Language and culture are often lumped together, as if they were one in the same. But does learning another language really make you any less racist?

This funding will allow the AFPNB to undertake activities to recognize and promote the role and commitment of Francophone parents in minority communities. Through its work with parents and communities, the organization promotes an educational, community, and family environment that is conducive to the personal development of children and their families.

This centre will provide services based on the needs of those attending which may include, but are not limited to, play groups, literacy programs, parenting programs, Healthy Baby Club, resource materials and support groups. All programs incorporate messages on child development, positive parenting, daily physical activities, injury prevention, family violence prevention and nutrition.

Atlantic Canadians are the most convinced in the country that a post-secondary degree helps them stand out in the job market. For this reason, they're willing to pay the costs. But, many students in the region admit they are feeling the heat.

Blair Lischeron comes to Project Literacy Kelowna following 5 years as the coordinator for a child development initiative in the South Okanagan-Similkameen called Communities for Kids / Success By 6.

PBS’s Mediashift web portal says exploration is a key part of learning and gaming encourages that. “Also, unlike many academic pursuits, it lets kids fail without making them feel like they’ve failed.”

The program provides newcomers with the opportunity to practise their verbal English language skills outside of a classroom setting. It’s based at the Confederation Centre Public Library, although materials are distributed to any of the province’s 26 public libraries and are available online.

With the second annual Essential Skills Day coming up on Friday, September 23, during Learn@Work Week, ABC Life Literacy Canada invites you to sign up for its workplace essential skills e-communications.

The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning is very pleased to be able to report on a number of CONFINTEA VI follow-up activities within and across countries during the first half of 2011.

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.