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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
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.
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.
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.
Social media at work: If you can't beat them, draw up a policy
Posted: June 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
At a recent seminar entitled Social Media in the Workplace: Uncharted Territory for Employers, lawyers at Sherrard Kuzz LLP, a Toronto-based labour and employment law firm, explained some of the implications of a social-network-savvy workforce to any organization.
B.C. Aboriginal trades training gets funding, research support
Posted: June 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Aboriginal trades training in B.C. received a major boost when a significant funding and research announcement was made by Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister Mary Polak at an Industry Training Authority-sponsored National Aboriginal Day celebration at Klahowya Village in Stanley Park.
Opportunities for women expanding in the skilled trades
Posted: June 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Megan Wisser changed her career path and enrolled as a steamfitter/pipefitter, an occupation that few women traditionally take on. "There are not many females in the trades - a few," she says.
Apprenticeships in the skilled trades are essential to the success of every journeyperson - an individual who completes the combined education requirements and work experience - embarking on their often highly lucrative careers, says Jack Graham, academic chair of the electrical trades at SAIT.
Learn@Work Week is set for September 19-23, 2011 (PDF)
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Learn@Work Week is an annual celebration of learning in the workplace. Hosted by the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD), the week is an opportunity for businesses, governments and not-for-profit organizations to share their learning initiatives with their employees and the public.
Retaining talented, well-qualified employees is growing issue for employers
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
As the struggle for employers to attract workers with the right skills grows, employees are feeling the pressure mount when it comes to their skills requirements and work responsibilities.
Quebec workers’ vacations too short, says CROP-CRHA survey
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
According to a CROP survey conducted in May for the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés, more than half the workers in Quebec don’t have enough vacation time to recharge their batteries and this trend is on the rise.
One in three employees is seeking alternative to current job: research
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Approximately one of three (36 per cent) Canadian workers is seriously considering leaving their organization at the present time, up sharply from 26 per cent in 2006. Meanwhile, another 22 per cent are indifferent about leaving but are increasingly dissatisfied with their employers and yield the lowest scores on key measures of engagement.
TD Bank Group renews investment to keep children reading in summer months
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Learning
TD Bank Group has announced a multi-year, $3.7-million renewed investment to the program to help Library and Archives Canada, Toronto Public Library and CNIB run the TD Summer Reading Club through to 2014.
Assembly of First Nations releases first report on call to action on education
Posted: June 21, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Assembly of First Nations has released a one-year status report on the national Call to Action on First Nation education, showcasing progress and partnerships in working toward fairness in education for First Nations and encouraging others to join the effort.
Mental health stigma still pervasive in Canadian workplaces
Posted: June 20, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
When it comes to mental health issues in Canadian workplaces, misinformation, fear and prejudice remain far too prevalent, according to a Conference Board of Canada study released at the Workplace Mental Health 2011 conference in Toronto.
Record Aboriginal graduation class sends important messages
Posted: June 20, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Don’t give up on education. ● Don’t take a school day for granted. ● Work hard.
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