National Adult Literacy Database

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.

Two days of presentations and debate ran the gamut from the significance of lifelong learning for sustainability in view of climate changes, to the relationship between the right to learn and the right to decent work.

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.

Ontario is investing more than $2.2 million over three years in the Life After High School program. This includes paying for participants' university or college application fee.

Classes for summer learning opportunities on Prince Edward Island begin July 4 and continue for six weeks. Each credit consists of 110 hours of instructional time. Cooperative education courses may be completed in fewer than six weeks depending on arrangements for work placements.

Alberta’s new Serving Communities Internship Program will award post-secondary students a $1,000 bursary for completing an internship with one of the province’s non-profit/voluntary organizations.

The governments of Canada and Manitoba are investing $732,400 towards a new facility to train Aboriginal workers for skilled jobs in Manitoba's manufacturing and transportation industries.

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.

A very high percentage of adults with literacy difficulties may simply have a problem with their eyesight, a four-year study carried out across Scotland has found.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t give up on education. ● Don’t take a school day for granted. ● Work hard.

Naturally, the generation that lives on Facebook and can text at warp speed prefers to look for jobs online. The problem is that it's one of the least likely places to find work.