National Adult Literacy Database

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.

Canada Post has announced the finalists for its 2011 Community Literacy Awards. In two categories, Individual Achievement and Educator, finalists were chosen by a committee of judges from Canada Post from entries submitted from across the country. Literacy advocates from organizations across Canada will determine the ultimate winners.

This feature article by Astrid Van Den Broek is posted on NALD with acknowledgement that it was first published in the Canadian Library Association publication 'Feliciter,' Vol. 57, No. 2, and is used with permission of the Canadian Library Association.

Low morale in the workplace can lead to poor co-operation, low productivity, increased turnover – and ultimately stop a business from reaching its goals.

A simple first step is to ask exactly what restrictions are imposed in one’s own workplace. In some cases, raising the issue along with a reasonable case for employee rights might well ensure that an employer who hasn’t given the issue much thought will prove willing to allow workers to speak freely.

Twenty-three English schools across Quebec have reinvented themselves as part of the movement in the province’s English education system to become community schools. It’s a concept that involves forging partnerships with community-based groups.

Yukon youth will have the opportunity to showcase their talents in the skilled trades and learn about career options in the trades and technology sectors, thanks to support from the governments of Canada and Yukon.

Canada’s sector councils play a key role in helping industry develop training programs that benefit workers in their industries. Many of these programs are adapted by other organizations and by educational institutions.

NIACE welcomes recognition of the importance of ensuring that colleges and universities are ‘equally accessible’ to people who didn’t go into further education or higher education at 16 or 18 and the recommendation that ministers restore funding for FE access courses for students over the age of 24. NIACE also supports the development of a national program of access and foundation courses.

Staff members at the PEI Literacy Alliance say essential skills are the basic skills needed to learn all other skills. They have compiled an essential skills tip sheet for family vacations.

“We really want to target groups of students who have been unrepresented at post-secondary – students who are from vulnerable neighbourhoods like Crescent Valley. If they’ve got the academic admission requirements and we can get the financial aid in place, that’s what we want.”