National Adult Literacy Database

Portfolio development that incorporates the 9 Essential Skills has become a major resource throughout Manitoba for Aboriginal communities with a vision of education, training and employment.

WINNIPEG, September 24, 2010 — Ministers of education concluded the 98th meeting of their long-standing intergovernmental body, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), recently in Winnipeg.

TORONTO – September 28, 2010 – ABC Life Literacy Canada, in partnership with Grass Roots Press, and with support from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, today launched the first six (of 12) titles in the innovative Good Reads series for adult literacy learners. “Being able to connect adult learners to bestselling Canadian authors is an incredibly powerful experience for all involved,” said Margaret Eaton, President of ABC Life Literacy Canada.

York University's Glendon College is breaking ground on its new Centre for Excellence in French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. With assistance from the Ontario government, the college is building the new facility to improve access to postsecondary French-language programs for Francophone students.

As students in Canada’s post-secondary institutions settle into the new academic year, a new report from the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) shows that many of them are taking on higher debt-loads than in the past.

ABC Life Literacy Canada is pleased to proclaim September 23 as the inaugural Essential Skills Day.

News from the literacy and essential skills field is posted daily to NALD and NALD@Work. If you see news happening in your area or come across an interesting story online, let us know by emailing contactnald@nald.ca.

As recently as 2008, one in five Canadian teens were not pursuing a formal education — a figure that falls below the average of other developed countries, a new Statistics Canada report suggests.

OTTAWA, Sept. 10 /CNW/ - While college and university students across the country have started their classes, thousands of Aboriginal students are unable to access post-secondary education due to a lack of funding.

In 2006, one in five (20%) off-reserve First Nations children aged two to five were able to understand an Aboriginal language, regardless of whether it was learned as a mother tongue or second language. Cree and Ojibway were the languages understood by the largest number of these children.

A new study projects that the number of Canadians with low literacy skills will rise 25 per cent over the 30-year period from 2001 to 2031.

OTTAWA — Current low literacy rates in Canada's biggest cities are expected to be about the same in 20 years unless some serious efforts to improve them are made now, a new report released Wednesday warns.

The public use microdata file from the 2008 Access and Support to Education and Training Survey is now available. This file contains information collected from more than 31,000 respondents under the age of 65, excluding individuals residing in the three territories in the North, and excluding individuals residing in institutions.

September 1, 2010—Choosing which university or college to attend can be a daunting task for students and their parents. As high school students return to school and begin to consider which post-secondary institution they would like to attend, a new report from the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is proposing a tool that would help students select the educational path that best meets their needs—as part of a new comprehensive framework for post-secondary education in Canada.

Ottawa, August 26 — In some regions of Northern Canada, almost half of all adults have not completed high school, compared to one in 12 in Southern Canada, according to the Centre for the North’s “High School Confidential” map, the third in The Conference Board of Canada’s Here, the North series.