National Adult Literacy Database

In a world where undergraduate degrees are a dime a dozen and most industries are overflowing with over-qualified candidates, I knew that getting a well-rounded education was a necessity.

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.

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At their July 2011 meeting in Vancouver, premiers endorsed an international education marketing action plan prepared for them by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) and provincial and territorial immigration ministers. The plan will help bring the best of Canadian education to the world and even more international students to Canada.

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.

Doctors should routinely ask parents to complete quick and simple questionnaires about their preschool children to ensure developmental delays are caught and treated early, says a new study.

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.

Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés.

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.

A lack of basic reading skills could be putting vulnerable people’s health at risk in Wales, according to a new report.

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.