Alberta headlines
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
Literacy Alberta has opening for project coordinator/facilitator
Posted: July 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
This individual will work with the Calgary-based team to develop, market and deliver workshops on topics such as literacy awareness, plain language communications, and essential skills for living, learning and working in a variety of settings across the province.
Unpaid interns: Working for free but getting valuable experience?
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
As if shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for post-secondary schooling isn’t enough, an unpaid internship has become a rite of passage for many students.
SkillPlan offers online training in essential skills
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
SkillPlan, a leader in essential skills, is pleased to present these online workshops for professional development. The workshops offer practitioners ideas on how to use these resources in instruction and provide an opportunity to share ideas with colleagues.
Council of the Federation announces literacy award winners for 2011
Posted: July 19, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Canada’s premiers have announced the recipients of the seventh annual Council of the Federation Literacy Award. Presented in each province and territory, the award celebrates outstanding achievement, innovative practice and excellence in literacy. The winners are...
Microsoft Live@edu provides the flexibility of Office Web Apps that include web-optimized versions of Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint. UNB students will now be able to access these essential tools anywhere, anytime, on their PCs or mobile devices.
NALD dedicates this report to all Canadians who embrace the significant role that technology plays
in learning, communication, collaboration and professional development within the field of literacy and
essential skills.
Hone your workplace skills with bite-sized e-learning
Posted: July 15, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
With most e-learning courses, you can proceed at your own pace on your own time. You can review material during a coffee break, or spend time on the laptop while your spouse is engrossed in a television show you can’t stand.
Second annual Essential Skills Day is September 23, 2011
Posted: July 15, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Essential Skills Day shines an important spotlight on the nine essential skills as defined by the Government of Canada, and will convene employers, governments, unions and the literacy field in various initiatives to celebrate the importance of workplace essential skills.
A shortage of skilled trades workers is the next major crisis to hit the machine, tool, die and mould sector, said the vice-president of the Canadian Association of Moldmakers.
Statistics Canada takes look at how we Canadians spend our time
Posted: July 13, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canadians who performed unpaid work, such as housework, childcare and civic and voluntary activities, reported spending four hours and four minutes on these activities on any given day in 2010, up eight minutes from 1998.
Call for nominations: Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards program
Posted: July 13, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Canadians across the country have a new opportunity to recognize the exceptional contributions volunteers make in their communities. Nominations for the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards will be accepted until September 9, 2011.
Up to ‘TASC:’ Skills development fact sheets now available for download
Posted: July 12, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Seven recently published fact sheets, compiled by The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC), highlight innovative responses to some of Canada’s key human resource challenges.
Centre launches report on work-related informal learning
Posted: July 12, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This resource provides employers, trainers and educators, labour unions and other professional groups concerned with workplace skills development a starting point to actively incorporate informal learning into the learning toolbox of the Canadian workplace.
Royal Couple’s passion for helping youth inspires new post-secondary scholarship
Posted: July 12, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Alberta students who have been in government care will be rewarded for their academic success through a new scholarship named in honour of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The Government of Alberta announced the creation of the $50,000 Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Scholarship to commemorate the Royal Couple’s visit to Alberta.
Volunteers in the John Howard Society’s literacy program provide one-on-one tutoring to inmates at the Winnipeg Remand Centre. The program aims not only to improve inmates’ reading, writing and grammar skills but also to help educate them on topics of interest including parenting, victim awareness and substance use.
There is an unprecedented shift going on in the workforce – one that was only a vague promise during the late-1990s Internet boom. Thanks to the pervasive adoption of mobile technology, more workers are setting up shop from “remote” locations unrestricted by geography.
Government takes new approach to address skills issue
Posted: July 12, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Government of Canada is taking action to address skills shortages so Canadians can train for jobs in a changing economy. There are significant shortages in many key industries including healthcare, IT and skilled trades, but as more industries take part in this new information-sharing strategy the list of employers seeking skilled workers will continue to grow.
In an effort to better serve its clients and stakeholders across the broad spectrum of literacy and essential skills, the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) is pleased to inform you about several enhancements.
Jobs numbers rise for third consecutive month: Statistics Canada
Posted: July 8, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.4 per cent as the number of people participating in the labour market increased. Over the past 12 months, employment has grown by 238,000 (+1.4%).
Most Canadian companies hiring in coming months: report
Posted: July 7, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canadians should see a “solid” jobs market for the remainder of the year, according to a newly released survey of hiring managers.
Essential skills games for summer available from Centre for Skills Development & Training
Posted: July 7, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Skills Development & Training, through funding from HRSDC’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills and in partnership with the Halton Industry Education Council, has developed educational video games targeted at young adults aged 15-30 to help enhance their employability.
Work before and after vacation can be overwhelming
Posted: July 6, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The work week just before your vacation is likely to be tough for one reason or another. If you’ve been hunkering down in the corner plowing through reams of work diligently and quietly, suddenly you will be noticed and really put to work.
Workforce Essential Skills across Canada project: Feature of the Month
Posted: July 5, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The WESCan (Workforce Essential Skills across Canada) project used the CAMERA System as its foundation, combined with knowledge gained through years of research and analysis on effective ways to transition low-skilled adults to work.
WESCan: Project with national scope making a difference at grassroots level
Posted: July 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Can workforce essential skills programming work in your community? PTP Adult Learning and Employment Programs says yes and has the national research project to prove it.
Chief financial officers who put most of their energy into number crunching are missing tremendous opportunities to contribute leadership and vision to their companies, according to a new study of Canadian CFOs.
Workplace mental health leave recurs sooner than physical health leave: study
Posted: June 30, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
It is a complex task to untangle the reasons why mental health disability leave recurs sooner than those for physical health. It is possible the workers in a new research study had not fully recovered when they returned to work because some aspects of their illness were overlooked, researchers point out.
New online resource helps employers, HR professionals understand foreign-earned education
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Education Overview Guides are one of many resources to better integrate newcomers into life in Alberta by getting them into careers which reflect their education and experience.
Frontier College launches Aboriginal summer literacy camps across Canada
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Frontier College is getting ready for a busy summer of helping children in Aboriginal communities across Canada improve their reading skills. Staff in over 60 camps will work to keep youngsters motivated and improve their literacy skills by preventing reading loss that often occurs over the summer months.
Newcomers advised to seek out learning opportunities to help with ‘under-employment’ challenges
Posted: June 27, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Despite the importance of landing a dream job, only 42 per cent of immigrants indicated they sought out information about career options in Canada before deciding to move.
ABC Life Literacy Canada accepting nominations for Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy, Learning Award
Posted: June 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievement in increasing workplace literacy and essential skills in their community.
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