National headlines
Many baby boomers aren’t interested in retirement
Posted: September 6, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
Retirement does not appeal to many baby boomers, according to career counsellor Marilyn Henigman, who is seeing plenty of citizens aged 45 to 65 on the hunt for work.
Literacy NL accepting nominations for board members until September 27, 2011
Posted: September 6, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador is currently looking for dedicated people who wish to be nominated for election to its Board of Directors. There are currently three vacant seats for which nominations are being accepted: Eastern Region, Central Region and Adult Learner. The term of office is two years. Deadline for nominations is September 27, 2011.
NALD has opening for bilingual web designer: Closing date for applications
September 16, 2011 (PDF)
Posted: September 2, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) Inc., a national non-profit organization employing 12 people at its office in Fredericton, N.B., has an opening for a Bilingual Web Designer.
September is all about back-to-school – time to get back into routines, make lunches and go to bed early. And since there’s so much to do and children are still in summer mode, it’s hard to make sure the family is focusing on learning.
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés.
Website outlines social and holistic approach to numeracy: NALD’s Feature of the Month
Posted: September 2, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
A Social and Holistic Approach to Numeracy is a new website which was developed as part of a two-year project led by the Labour Education Centre in partnership with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Workplace Education Manitoba.
Women still missing in action from senior management positions in Canadian organizations: new Conference Board report
Posted: September 2, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Between 1987 and 2009, the proportion of women in senior management has changed little. Men are still more than twice as likely to hold a senior executive position, according to a Conference Board report.
We must set our sights higher: CAW national president Ken Lewenza
Posted: September 2, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“This Labour Day, workers must not only celebrate previous achievements, but set our sights on an agenda for progress to bring about the more just, fair and caring society that so many of us crave.”
Canadian companies need to work harder: Labour Day poll
Posted: September 2, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The survey helps illustrate where baby boomers and their gen Y offspring believe companies can do more. Nearly one in three boomers does not feel companies treat workers nearing retirement with respect. Both generations cite better management, and improved organizational structure as changes they’d like to see. However, despite their workplace concerns, 75 per cent of young people, and 82 per cent of boomers say they are satisfied with their current job.
Managers need to be up to speed on their people skills
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Managers wear many hats and have to be in tune with the people they manage. Empathy, one of many dimensions within the spectrum of emotion intelligence skills, refers to the ability to be aware of, to understand and to appreciate the feelings of others.
Job search firm calls for National Work from Home Day
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Workopolis website says that allowing the Canadians who spend just one day a year driving to work alone would save about $120 million in out-of-pocket expenses and eliminate more than 60 million kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions.
While not suited for all jobs, telework is gaining traction
Posted: September 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
A concept of work that has struggled to find its way into mainstream offices around the world may finally be coming into its own. Even the term itself may be outdating itself.
Ottawa helping to boost economic security of women and girls on PEI
Posted: August 31, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The federal government will assist two programs on Prince Edward Island that are geared towards improving the well-being of women: Women Moving Forward to Economic Stability and Recruitment of Women into Non-Traditional Work.
Broadening the Base for Strategic Workforce Planning: The Value of Cross-Functional Partnerships
Posted: August 31, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
In 2009, The Conference Board introduced the SWP Maturity Model, a framework that shows a fairly typical evolutionary path of strategic workforce planning. The Maturity Model gives companies a yardstick for assessing their current SWP practices and knowing what the next stage of SWP maturity looks like.
The Centre for Family Literacy in Edmonton has been working with Vancouver Community College (VCC) and Conestoga College (Ontario) to establish an online college certificate program in family literacy. After being piloted at VCC, this OLES-funded project is now complete and information about the program is being disseminated across Canada.
Job posting: Communications Officer, Canadian Literacy and Learning Network (CLLN) (PDF) - Deadline to apply: September 6, 2011
Posted: August 26, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Reporting to the CEO, this position creates, manages and implements the Canadian Literacy and Learning Network’s (CLLN) communications, marketing and public relations plan.
Articles on homelessness and poverty in the Transition magazine, by the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Why has homelessness and poverty become such a serious problem in BC and Canada?
Smart Sessions for employers - Participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges faced by Canadian employers
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Smart Sessions are participatory workshops designed to address the skills-related challenges that Canadian employers face. Each session focuses on an issue of priority to local business communities.
Essential Skills Day is coming up on September 23
Posted: August 25, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The second annual Essential Skills Day will take place on September 23, 2011 during Learn@Work Week. This day raises awareness of the nine essential skills and looks at the importance of skills training in the workplace.
Most language teachers will tell you that what you put in, is what you get out of language studies. The reality is that language acquisition is a complex process that involves communication, grammar, structure, comprehension and language production…
Modernizing Employment Insurance Delivery to Canadians
Posted: August 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The federal government announces further measures to improve processes and modernize the delivery of Employment Insurance (EI) to Canadians.
What words do you think belong in the Oxford dictionary?
Posted: August 23, 2011 |
Category: Learning
From unfortunate sartorial styles to a new form of online harassment, the latest words entering the Oxford Dictionary are decidedly modern.
Government of Canada moving forward with its low-tax plan for jobs and growth
Posted: August 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The draft legislative proposals would: support families and communities; invest in education and training; Support job creation and entrepreneurship; and preserve Canada’s fiscal integrity.
Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC) launches Essential Skills website and Assessment tool
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC) announces the official launch of their Essential Skills website and assessment tool. All tools and assessments on the website are available in both French and English.
ABC Life Literacy Canada's new Financial Literacy Week website coming soon
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The interactive website brings Canadians into the financial literacy discussion encouraging them to share their insights, review video posts from Gail Vaz-Oxlade and others as well as watch our online photo gallery grow as Canadians take their promise to see how one small change can add up.
Aboriginal Literacy Camp wraps up: Camp successful in preventing summer reading loss
Posted: August 22, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Last Friday marked the end of a pilot project in Mistawasis First Nation which introduced literacy camps to over 300 young campers. By using fun, literacy-related activities such as Balloon Relay and Mannequin Mania…
Ottawa expanded the key role it plays in helping foreign trained skilled workers succeed in Canada
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
“We want newcomers to be able to use their skills as soon as possible in Canada and work to their full potential,” said Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. “It’s good for them and good for the Canadian economy.
Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament raised more than $1.35 million for adult literacy in New Brunswick during the past 10 years
Posted: August 19, 2011 |
Category: Learning
"Funds raised by activities related to the Peter Gzowski Invitational in New Brunswick are an excellent way of supporting community adult learning programs, family literacy programs and the purchase of books and equipment for adult learning classrooms," said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe.
Liven up your Math lessons with some great free iPod Touch apps for your students to use in class. These are apps you can count on!
Language and culture are often lumped together, as if they were one in the same. But does learning another language really make you any less racist?
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