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NALD's Feature of the Month: A Timeline of Literacy and Essential Skills from Essential Skills Ontario
Posted: May 1, 2013 | 
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“Throughout its long history, the literacy and essential skills field has continually evolved and adapted in response to the changing needs of adults. This timeline captures some of the important people, events, initiatives and other influences that have helped shape the literacy and essential skills field in Canada over the past 200 years.” -- Essential Skills Ontario
With the advent and refinement of brain imaging technology, researchers have been able to study how aspects of brain development support school readiness, various learning strategies and expertise in academic tasks such as numeracy and literacy. In turn, this knowledge can be used to improve current educational practices.
Most Canadian companies hiring in coming months: report
Posted: July 7, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Canadians should see a “solid” jobs market for the remainder of the year, according to a newly released survey of hiring managers.
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés.
Essential skills games for summer available from Centre for Skills Development & Training
Posted: July 7, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Skills Development & Training, through funding from HRSDC’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills and in partnership with the Halton Industry Education Council, has developed educational video games targeted at young adults aged 15-30 to help enhance their employability.
The federal government is launching a website it says will help Canadians identify which sectors of the economy are currently hiring and where job growth is likely to occur in future years.
Work before and after vacation can be overwhelming
Posted: July 6, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The work week just before your vacation is likely to be tough for one reason or another. If you’ve been hunkering down in the corner plowing through reams of work diligently and quietly, suddenly you will be noticed and really put to work.
The National Strategy on Inuit Education, developed in association with the NWT’s Department of Education, Culture and Employment, includes a series of bold new recommendations to empower parents, expand early childhood programs and gather detailed research data.
Territories sign agreement to further explore university models
Posted: July 6, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The ministers responsible for education in Canada’s three territories have signed an MOU to express their mutual interests and goals in exploring approaches for university development in Canada’s North.
Yukon’s Individual Learning Centre celebrates 150 graduates
Posted: July 5, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The Individual Learning Centre is continuing to offer alternative pathways to graduation for students who require enhanced flexibility to succeed in the public school system. Through the centre, work experience placements, pre-employment programs and career placement initiatives can be incorporated into the students’ education plans.
Workforce Essential Skills across Canada project: Feature of the Month
Posted: July 5, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The WESCan (Workforce Essential Skills across Canada) project used the CAMERA System as its foundation, combined with knowledge gained through years of research and analysis on effective ways to transition low-skilled adults to work.
N.B.’s Wage Gap Action Plan: Scholarships awarded in non-traditional training programs
Posted: July 5, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The scholarship is intended to encourage women and men entering their first year at community college or a private college to seek careers in trades, technology and others sectors where participation by women and men has been limited.
WESCan: Project with national scope making a difference at grassroots level
Posted: July 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Can workforce essential skills programming work in your community? PTP Adult Learning and Employment Programs says yes and has the national research project to prove it.
The Saskatchewan Aboriginal Literacy Network has honoured and recognized Aboriginal individual and organizational effort in the development, enhancement and/or promotion of Aboriginal literacy in the province.
Chief financial officers who put most of their energy into number crunching are missing tremendous opportunities to contribute leadership and vision to their companies, according to a new study of Canadian CFOs.
Workplace mental health leave recurs sooner than physical health leave: study
Posted: June 30, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
It is a complex task to untangle the reasons why mental health disability leave recurs sooner than those for physical health. It is possible the workers in a new research study had not fully recovered when they returned to work because some aspects of their illness were overlooked, researchers point out.
Employees don’t always share well with others, says new paper exposing ‘knowledge hiding’
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Why isn't knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it? Maybe it's because their staff don't always want to share.
New online resource helps employers, HR professionals understand foreign-earned education
Posted: June 29, 2011 | 
Category: Essential skills
The Education Overview Guides are one of many resources to better integrate newcomers into life in Alberta by getting them into careers which reflect their education and experience.
Project-based learning prepares PEI students for 21st century
Posted: June 29, 2011 | 
Category: Learning
Students are diving deeper into creative problem-solving by focusing on project-based learning, says PEI Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Doug Currie.
French as a mother tongue is found throughout Canada and somewhat more so in the North than in the South, according to the map Parlez-Vous Français, published by The Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for the North.
Ottawa lends support to Aboriginal skills development in Saskatchewan
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan will get the skills they need to find and keep jobs through an innovative project supported by the Government of Canada.
Strong language, literacy skills in mother tongue linked to strong skills in second language: Nunavut Literacy Council
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Nunavut Literacy Council says the federal government’s support for bilingual education in Inuit regions is “critical.”
Frontier College launches Aboriginal summer literacy camps across Canada
Posted: June 29, 2011 |
Category: Learning
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.
Pathways to Education program expanding with $28.5 million from Ontario
Posted: June 28, 2011 | 
Category: Learning
An inner-city Toronto education program that is achieving marked success in lowering the dropout rate for disadvantaged high-school students is expanding to new communities with the help of a fresh infusion of government funding.
UIL participates in key debates on adult learning at world assembly
Posted: June 27, 2011 |
Category: Learning
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.
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning marks important milestone
Posted: June 27, 2011 |
Category: Learning
June 2011 marks the 60th anniversary of the first governing board meeting of the UNESCO Institute for Education, the forerunner of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Newcomers advised to seek out learning opportunities to help with ‘under-employment’ challenges
Posted: June 27, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
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.
ABC Life Literacy Canada accepting nominations for Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy, Learning Award
Posted: June 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
The Dr. Alan Middleton Workplace Literacy and Learning Award recognizes individuals for their outstanding achievement in increasing workplace literacy and essential skills in their community.
Ontario helping students prepare for life after high school
Posted: June 24, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
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.
Social media at work: If you can't beat them, draw up a policy
Posted: June 23, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
At a recent seminar entitled Social Media in the Workplace: Uncharted Territory for Employers, lawyers at Sherrard Kuzz LLP, a Toronto-based labour and employment law firm, explained some of the implications of a social-network-savvy workforce to any organization.
Registration continues on PEI for summer learning opportunities
Posted: June 23, 2011 |
Category: Learning
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.
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