National Adult Literacy Database

Frontier College, the Canadian Diabetes Association and Literacy Link South Central invite the general community and health-care providers with clients living with diabetes to attend a videoconference on health literacy. The event is planned for December 1, 2011, and speaker will be Linda Shohet, director of The Centre for Literacy.

The banks are all over Financial Literacy Month, offering up their experts to the media and issuing lists of helpful tips. Would they like to follow up with some practical measures?

At the first of the Work and Learning Network’s 2011/2012 symposiums, John Servage drew on his 35 years of experience to present a rich case study which described how this troubled group of workers used employee-driven learning to turn their department around. John described how he and his staff broke the department into inquiry teams, and empowered them to change the way they worked together.

Conforming to the recommendations made by 144 governments at the Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) in 2009, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning has developed a reporting template which solicits data for the key areas identified in the Belém Framework for Action – policy, governance, finance, participation and quality.

Ashoka Changemakers invite you to share your ideas or projects that help First Nations, Métis and Inuit learners to succeed. As long as your focus is on learning, inside or beyond the classroom, your submission is welcome. Deadline for submissions is January 27, 2012.

The disappointing Statistics Canada numbers are in stark contrast to economists’ expectations that 12,000 new jobs would be created in October, after 61,000 new positions in September. The loss of 32,000 jobs in the private sector in October was the third consecutive monthly decline in that category.

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Who do team captains pick for their sides, both then and now? - They pick people they know. - They pick people who have won before. - They pick people they want to be friends with. - They pick team players.

With assistance from the federal Skills Link program, the Boys and Girls Club of East Scarborough will help 48 youth develop the skills and experience needed to find a job or the confidence to return to school.

Centre FORA’s Board of Directors is proud of the Centre’s accomplishments as well as those of its director, Yolande Clément, founder and Executive Director since 1989; it is therefore saddened to announce her departure from this position. But at the same time, it is also proud to announce the nomination of Liane Romain, who will spearhead this publishing and distribution house which specializes in literacy and numeracy.

DataAngel Policy Research has produced a report card that ranks every Federal Electoral District in Canada on several dimensions of literacy. Its hope is that these data will help Members of Parliament and voters think about what they might do to address Canada’s literacy challenge.

As UK unemployment rates for women rise to the highest levels in 17 years, NIACE and the Skills Funding Agency have published a report setting out strategies for engaging women in pre-employment training and for supporting them to achieve and progress.

“Although the economic downturn may have contributed to lower learning and development budgets in 2010, the decline in spending is indicative of an ongoing pattern,” said Carrie Lavis, senior research associate with The Conference Board of Canada.

The report examines the number of NALD Library documents, in both English and French, which are viewed and downloaded by visitors to the websites NALD and BDAA.

The committee considered a string of suggestions from individual members of the newly appointed Toronto Public Library Board, including shutting 38 of Toronto’s 98 branches, selling the historic Yorkville branch and reducing opening hours.