National Adult Literacy Database

UNESCO is launching a new UN-wide portal on the global economic crisis and its implications for education. Based on knowledge-sharing, it highlights major ongoing research on the impact of the crisis.

Money Matters will increase the financial literacy and numeracy skills among adult learners across Canada. The program will help them make appropriate decisions and increase confidence when dealing with their finances.

This year, make a resolution for lifelong learning with these literacy tips from ABC Life Literacy Canada.

Canada's economy added more jobs than expected in December, with a net 22,000 new positions concentrated in full-time, private-sector work, while the unemployment rate unexpectedly held at 7.6 per cent.

Young men and women from the Burnaby Youth Custody Centre in British Columbia have teamed up with filmmakers from Vancouver’s Reel Youth organization to create two raw and inspiring music videos about life behind bars.

Employment outcomes of doctoral graduates in Canada vary across fields of study. Humanities graduates, for example, show higher rates of both unemployment and part-time employment compared with graduates in other fields.

Family Literacy Day is an annual initiative that takes place on January 27 to encourage families to learn together all year round. The theme this year is Play for Literacy. Playing games creates a strong family bond, promotes language comprehension and improves reading skills.

Baby boomers are rapidly approaching retirement but aren’t financially ready, according to the recent TD Waterhouse Boomer Happiness Index.

A national survey conducted for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants finds that many Canadians are in difficult financial circumstances or making financial decisions that threaten their long-term prosperity.

Ningwakwe Learning Press has carved out a niche in the relatively new field of Aboriginal literacy and educational publishing. By continuing to support First Nation, Inuit and Métis artists and writers in their development of high quality books, they have added an Aboriginal presence in not just literacy, but publishing as well right across Canada.

Women set tougher career goals and care more about achieving them than men, but at the same time, women are more likely to let them slide, according to a study released recently by Leadership IQ, a Washington, D.C.-based training company.

Weaker candidates have a tendency to generalize their experience, not being able to draw out specifically what they learned in a given situation, or why. Stronger candidates tend to be much more specific.