National headlines
Statistics Canada study looks at education levels and marital trends
Posted: September 9, 2010 | 
In 2006, the majority of women with a university education were married to men who also had a university education. However, this tendency has decreased slightly over the last quarter-century. The pattern is similar for women in common-law unions.
Number of Canadians with low literacy skills likely to climb, group says
Posted: September 8, 2010 |
A new study projects that the number of Canadians with low literacy skills will rise 25 per cent over the 30-year period from 2001 to 2031.
ABC celebrates 20 years of successfully promoting ‘life literacy’ cause
Posted: September 8, 2010 |
(Toronto, ON – September 8, 2010) – In honour of the 20th anniversary being celebrated today, ABC Life Literacy Canada is pleased to offer 20 literacy tips that anyone can use in various aspects of their life.
Little improvement is forecast for literacy rates in Canada’s big cities
Posted: September 8, 2010 |
OTTAWA — Current low literacy rates in Canada's biggest cities are expected to be about the same in 20 years unless some serious efforts to improve them are made now, a new report released Wednesday warns.
NALD website redesigned to meet needs of literacy, essential skills community
Posted: September 7, 2010 |
FREDERICTON, NB – September 8, 2010 – The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has chosen International Literacy Day to launch its newly designed website.
In addition to a new, bold layout and a 30 per cent wider page, NALD has changed its interface to reflect a state-of-the-art content management system that will allow NALD to better meet the needs of the literacy and essential skills community across Canada.
Canadians among the best-educated in the world: report
Posted: September 7, 2010 |
Canadians are better educated than they were a decade ago and have some of the highest rates of post-secondary attendance in the developed world, a new report suggests.
Education indicators in Canada: An international perspective
Posted: September 7, 2010 |
In 2008, 20% of Canadian teenagers aged 15 to 19 were no longer pursuing a formal education. This was higher than the average of 15% across the 31 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). While this OECD proportion was down from 20% in 1998, in Canada, it remained stable at 20%.
Top Twenty Downloads in PDF Format of Resources from the NALD Collections for the Month of August 2010
Posted: September 7, 2010 |
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD, NALD@Work, BDAA and BDAA@uTravail.
Results of Access and Support to Education and Training Survey now available: Statistics Canada
Posted: September 3, 2010 |
The public use microdata file from the 2008 Access and Support to Education and Training Survey is now available. This file contains information collected from more than 31,000 respondents under the age of 65, excluding individuals residing in the three territories in the North, and excluding individuals residing in institutions.
Number of mature students on the rise in Canada, study reports
Posted: September 3, 2010 |
There’s a new type of frosh populating university campuses: they sip coffee instead of soda, sport grey hair and can be heard chatting about their children and whether their spouses have access to the student health-care plan.
New report on helping students make best choice for post-secondary education
Posted: September 2, 2010 |
September 1, 2010—Choosing which university or college to attend can be a daunting task for students and their parents. As high school students return to school and begin to consider which post-secondary institution they would like to attend, a new report from the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is proposing a tool that would help students select the educational path that best meets their needs—as part of a new comprehensive framework for post-secondary education in Canada.
Canada, Manitoba sign agreements on official languages
Posted: September 1, 2010 |
WINNIPEG, August 30, 2010 – The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba, and, on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, Shelly Glover, Parliamentary Secretary for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Member of Parliament (Saint Boniface), today announced the signing of two agreements on official languages.
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