Manitoba headlines
Prime minister announces education support for at-risk youth
Posted: March 4, 2011 | 
Category: Learning
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced support for Pathways to Education Canada, a charitable organization dedicated to reducing poverty and its effects by increasing access to post-secondary education for disadvantaged youth.
NALD Innovative Technology Award: Nomination phase extended to April 15, 2011
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has extended the nomination phase for its second annual Innovation Technology Award. Submissions will now be accepted until April 15, 2011.
Essential Skills at Work in the North: NALD@Work’s Feature of the Month
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Northwest Territories Literacy Council has developed an interactive learning tool titled Essential Skills at Work in the North. Funded by the Government of Canada and the Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment, the tool is designed to help northerners learn what it takes to succeed in various jobs.
Valuing Children: A Canadian Conversation – national conference May 26-28 in Saint John
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Early Childhood Care and Education New Brunswick and the Canadian Child Care Federation are pleased to host the national child care conference Valuing Children: A Canadian Conversation, May 26 - 28, 2011, in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Federal government launches fun, educational mobile application
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has launched a fun and educational Facebook application that tests your knowledge of Canada’s history, values, symbols and political institutions.
Popular learning disabilities program may get second life
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
A program that takes a unique approach to learning disabilities by challenging students to retrain their brains is under review by the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
OLC conducting research on professionalism in literacy field
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The study will draw upon academic research, findings from international literacy professionalization initiatives, and interviews with literacy stakeholders to identify their particular issues, concerns, hopes and ideas relating to professionalization.
Whatever it takes: How hero worship can get boys into books
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Literacy is about "cultivating the fundamental need in most boys to be the hero of their own story, and showing them how they can experience it through the power of the written word."
Financial literacy is key to bright personal, economic future: commentary
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Personal financial stress sometimes spills over into poor workplace performance, or perhaps employee preoccupation with trying to find more lucrative employment.
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