National Adult Literacy Database

In Operation Back to School, business people describe their professional career path, the challenges they had to overcome, and the work required to do so. The students they meet are given a chance to ask questions and get informed about the various avenues open to them on the job market, while also allaying their fears and sharing their points of view.

Springs Academy in Sheffield has banned pupils from using slang while at school to encourage better elocution and improve future job prospects.

Communities in Canada’s North often lag behind the South in terms of educational outcomes, but they are leaders in developing innovative ways to improve educational programming and delivery, according to a new report from The Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for the North.

Receiving negative feedback during a performance review is never a pleasant experience. But it's important to view a bad performance review in a positive way - as a wake-up call, not a career-ender.

Use the Working in Canada Web tool to learn about job opportunities, wages, skills requirements, and more. It’s a handy tool for both job searchers and employers alike.

In today’s global economy, countries need high-quality education systems that will teach their citizens the skills necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow. This series of videos, produced jointly by the OECD and the Pearson Foundation, highlights initiatives being taken by education authorities around the world to help school students do better.

The Canadian Paraplegic Association of Prince Edward Island is working in partnership with the PEI Council of People with Disabilities on the Discovering the Power in Me program. The program is receiving close to $120,000 from the governments of Canada and P.E.I. to help participants enhance their resumé and cover letter writing, improve time and stress management, develop self-assessment skills, as well as help them find and get jobs.

The Conference Board of Canada is conducting a study to determine what underlying challenges businesses face in recruiting and retaining Métis, Inuit and First Nations workers. The research findings will help Aboriginal communities, businesses, educators and other stakeholders better understand the challenges and how to overcome them.

Canadian employers slipped to 20th place in terms of the priority employers place on employee skills training in a recent ranking. Less than 30 per cent of adult workers aged 25-64 received job-related education and training in Canada, compared with 45 per cent in the U.S., show data from Industry Canada and Statistics Canada.

The report outlines three steps it is felt should be taken in fiscal year 2012-13 in order to alleviate urgent funding pressures, including the need to provide funding increases to First Nations schools equal to the funding increases being provided by provinces to provincial schools.

The lesson for young writers: All good fiction begins with the creation of characters. And once you have created them, stand them upright with every syllable they speak, from story beginning to story end, as Dickens did.

The dinners are designed to introduce young women in high school to female mentors who work in skilled trades and technologies. They were introduced to help female students explore all of their options before making career decisions.

Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there are "still shadows of Charles Dickens's world in our own."

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) is offering Canadian students the chance to win one of three laptop computers while they learn about budgeting, savings, credit, debt and financial planning.

Fewer Maritimers have been enrolling in the region’s universities in recent years, largely the result of flattening demand after the peak in 2004, reveals a report released by the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission.