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NALD's Feature of the Month: A Timeline of Literacy and Essential Skills from Essential Skills Ontario
Posted: May 1, 2013 | 
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“Throughout its long history, the literacy and essential skills field has continually evolved and adapted in response to the changing needs of adults. This timeline captures some of the important people, events, initiatives and other influences that have helped shape the literacy and essential skills field in Canada over the past 200 years.” -- Essential Skills Ontario
Employers may find that the humanities major with extensive college experience in dealing with complex material handles some challenges better - more comprehensively, more imaginatively - than the business or finance major who assumed that her degree was all she needed to earn a place in your company.
It's not too late to make literacy your New Year's resolution: ABC Life Literacy Canada
Posted: January 7, 2013 |
Category: Learning
The New Year is here, and with it come promises of change – eating healthier, going to the gym and getting a new job, perhaps. Improving your literacy skills can also help you make the ultimate change.
NALD starts 2013 with revised Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles
Posted: January 4, 2013 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) is beginning a new year with an updated Vision, Mission and Values/Guiding Principles. NALD staff, under the direction of CEO Bill Stirling, started the renewal process with the NALD Board of Directors, including the CEO, adding the finishing touches and formalizing the new guidelines and the NALD Value Proposition at a recent board meeting.
National Science Foundation (U.S.) effort aims to transform learning technologies
Posted: January 4, 2013 |
Category: Learning
A federal program in the United States, still in its infancy, is supporting research that pairs partners that often operate in isolation — educational technology and scientific research on learning — with the goal of transforming teaching and learning in schools.
Focus on health literacy leads Northeast Edmonton Literacy Network to Easy-To-Read Sign Project
Posted: January 4, 2013 |
Category: Learning
The Northeast Edmonton Literacy Network is promoting its Easy-To-Read Sign Project. A work in progress and related to health literacy, the project includes a booklet with tips on making easy-to-read signs. It includes sample signs that are free to print and use for non-commercial purposes.
Increased employment in private sector bodes well for Canadian economy
Posted: January 4, 2013 |
Category: Labour market
Employment rose by 40,000 in December, the fourth increase in five months, according to a new Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada. December's increase was all in full-time work. The unemployment rate declined 0.1 percentage points to 7.1%, the lowest in four years.
Time to smile: The nine essential skills of returning to work after a holiday*
Posted: January 4, 2013 |
Category: Essential skills
Decoda Literacy Solutions has given a timely new twist to the traditional essential skills to mark the new year and assist with returning to work after a long stretch of vacation days.
Top 20 PDF Downloads for December 2012
Posted: January 3, 2013 |
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market, Learning
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads. The report examines the number of NALD Library documents which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the NALD website.
It is not uncommon for personal finance experts to say one requires 60% to 70% of his or her annual pre-retirement income in order to retire comfortably, but a new book suggests that’s an unnecessarily high goal.
Don’t you just love the start of a new year? It’s like a get-out-of-jail-free card that lets us put all the things we didn’t like about the previous 365 days behind us and push the reset button for the next 12 months.
Nominations sought for Prime Minister's Volunteer Awards - call for nominations open until March 1, 2013
Posted: January 2, 2013 |
Category: Learning
Canadians across the country have an opportunity to show appreciation for extraordinary volunteers in their communities. The call for nominations for the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards is open until March 1, 2013.
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