National Adult Literacy Database

The University of Moncton's success in recruiting international students to study at the institution is causing local employers to hope this could be one solution to the skilled worker shortage in that area of New Brunswick.

"Check out web comments on various news sites from people responding to things they've read. Soon you'll find those whose own words reveal they've missed the point, have imposed a ludicrous interpretation on unambiguous sentences and often that they've missed or chosen to ignore the most crucial portion of what they've read."

"The yardstick is always moving. The more technologically advanced we get, the further behind some people fall because they not only are lacking the basic literacy but they are lacking digital literacy. The gap is increasing."

Avoiding chronic stress using healthy diversions can help people survive multiple role strain. For example, reading a book for pleasure or giving oneself a break by watching a favourite TV program can be rejuvenating in small doses.

The Skills and Partnership Fund is part of the federal government’s approach to help First Nations, Métis and Inuit people get training and work experience to secure sustainable, meaningful employment.

Just in time for National Boss Day October 17, new research from OfficeTeam indicates few workers today are angling for the top spot.

To address this issue, CCL recommends the creation of a Council of Ministers on Learning — a federal/provincial/territorial body responsible for coordinating lifelong learning across the country. The report also recommends establishing clear and measurable national goals for each stage of learning as well as independent monitoring to assess Canada’s progress on meeting these goals.

Following two months of little change, employment rose by 61,000 in September, all in full-time work. This increase pushed the unemployment rate down 0.2 percentage points to 7.1 per cent, the lowest rate since December 2008.

High school graduation rates among First Nations students in Nova Scotia in 2009-10 were over 70 per cent, considerably higher than in other Atlantic provinces and the national average of 35 per cent for First Nation students on reserves, heard the National Panel on Elementary and Secondary Education. The panel was in Atlantic Canada seeking advice and recommendations for its blueprint for action to improve academic success for First Nations children and youth.

“It’s all about access,” says educator Dale Kirby from Memorial University of Newfoundland. “People who have jobs, children, mortgages and all those kinds of things now have an opportunity to continue their education.”

Young people are now competing with more experienced workers, and as a result, tend to seek more training, either through education or volunteering or unpaid internships.

"It is very positive to see the re-introduction of copyright legislation, as this remains a key concern for the library community," says CLA President Karen Adams. "We are happy to see that improvements introduced in the last bill have been maintained; however, modifications are required if the legislation is to ultimately succeed in its objectives, those being both balanced and technologically neutral."

Those who want to save are more apt to keep socking money away and more of it too, if they have just one goal in mind, shows work done in multiple countries by two researchers at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

NALD values feedback from the literacy and essential skills community so we are asking you to please complete a short online survey. The information you provide will be important in helping us understand more about our current users and what new services we may provide in the future. We have extended our submission deadline and would appreciate your responses by October 11, 2011, if possible. Thank you.

The unveiling of a new award promoting literacy innovation was among the highlights of Life Literacy Night, ABC Life Literacy Canada’s annual awards ceremony, held at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum recently.