National headlines
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
International Women’s Day 2011: Time to make the promise of equality a reality
Posted: March 7, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
One hundred years ago, only two countries allowed women to vote. Today that right is virtually universal and women have now been elected to lead governments in every continent. Women, too, hold leading positions in professions from which they were once banned.
Three women of literacy who changed democracy in America: commentary
Posted: March 7, 2011 |
Category: Learning
At a time when the world is witnessing the astonishing struggle for liberty and democracy in many areas where women are oppressed and treated like chattel, it is fitting that we recall the struggle of Americans of African ancestry to achieve their civil rights and to participate in the democratic process.
Non-profit, private sector leaders unveil landmark campaign to transform volunteerism
Posted: March 7, 2011 |
Category: Learning
A national campaign aimed at enriching volunteer experiences for Canadians and strengthening the volunteer sector has been launched by Volunteer Canada, the voice of volunteerism in Canada, and Manulife Financial, whose signature cause is to encourage volunteerism nationwide.
Staff is needed for a variety of supervisory and non-supervisory jobs for the 2011 Census. These jobs are ideal for students, recently retired persons, stay-at-home parents and those wanting to supplement their income.
Conference Board looks at economic growth, industries in Canada’s North
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Parts of Canada’s North experienced spectacular economic growth between 1999 and 2008. However, this growth was not evenly shared across all Northern regions, according to the latest map in The Conference Board of Canada’s Here, the North series.
Companies finding innovative ways to fix labour shortage
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Ganong Bros. Ltd. looked to overseas labour pools to fill its employee shortage. In 2005, management at the chocolate-maker’s factory in St. Stephen, N.B., realized they needed about 30 additional employees after a year of big contracts.
Working while sick does NOT impress colleagues, study indicates
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Sitting at your desk, coughing, wheezing and desperately reaching for the box of tissues every five minutes isn’t impressing your co-workers, according to a new survey about employees who come to work sick.
Men have generally filled the majority of positions in the automotive field yet that is beginning to change as more women are becoming involved in dealerships at every level.
New interactive maps from CCL make first deposit in Canada’s effort to measure financial
literacy
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) has launched a new online tool that allows users to measure the state of two crucial components of financial literacy – numeracy and document literacy – in more than 52,000 neighbourhoods and communities across the country.
Prime minister announces education support for at-risk youth
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced support for Pathways to Education Canada, a charitable organization dedicated to reducing poverty and its effects by increasing access to post-secondary education for disadvantaged youth.
International Women’s Day: Time to reflect on achievements, but also barriers that still exist
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
“Despite the progress we have made to date on evolving human rights for women, the celebration of International Women’s Day should be a useful reminder that the goal of full equality and equal opportunity remains an unsatisfied promise for many women in Canada, as well as in less developed countries.” – Randy Dickinson, Chair of New Brunswick Human Rights Commission
NALD Innovative Technology Award: Nomination phase extended to April 15, 2011
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) has extended the nomination phase for its second annual Innovation Technology Award. Submissions will now be accepted until April 15, 2011.
Essential Skills at Work in the North: NALD@Work’s Feature of the Month
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The Northwest Territories Literacy Council has developed an interactive learning tool titled Essential Skills at Work in the North. Funded by the Government of Canada and the Northwest Territories Department of Education, Culture and Employment, the tool is designed to help northerners learn what it takes to succeed in various jobs.
Valuing Children: A Canadian Conversation – national conference May 26-28 in Saint John
Posted: March 4, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Early Childhood Care and Education New Brunswick and the Canadian Child Care Federation are pleased to host the national child care conference Valuing Children: A Canadian Conversation, May 26 - 28, 2011, in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés. 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, NALD@Work, BDAA and BDAA@uTravail.
Federal government launches fun, educational mobile application
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has launched a fun and educational Facebook application that tests your knowledge of Canada’s history, values, symbols and political institutions.
Popular learning disabilities program may get second life
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
A program that takes a unique approach to learning disabilities by challenging students to retrain their brains is under review by the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
OLC conducting research on professionalism in literacy field
Posted: March 3, 2011 |
Category: Learning
The study will draw upon academic research, findings from international literacy professionalization initiatives, and interviews with literacy stakeholders to identify their particular issues, concerns, hopes and ideas relating to professionalization.
Debate surrounds privacy rights and employee use of email in the workplace
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
“There is a context and set of conditions within which the employer has to work,” said André Marois of Quebec’s Privacy Commission. “A company policy on email usage has to be made known to staff, explaining how they are to use it and that they’ll be subject to inquiries if they go beyond an established norm of usage.”
Toronto school for poor students would make them work for tuition
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
A private school for low-income high school students – where the young people would work to pay for their own tuition – has made its first inroads into opening in Toronto.
Future job market will require more post-secondary graduates
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Prospective university, college and vocational students have a tough decision to make in selecting the right program that will launch their career. With so many post-secondary schools to choose from, students are being reminded at learning institutions to make the most of their education options.
After brain injury, former U.S. scientist turns to writing
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Learning
A former scientist from Clinton Township, New Jersey, turned a traumatic brain injury into a new beginning as an author speaking out to support fellow survivors.
Whatever it takes: How hero worship can get boys into books
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Literacy is about "cultivating the fundamental need in most boys to be the hero of their own story, and showing them how they can experience it through the power of the written word."
Financial literacy is key to bright personal, economic future: commentary
Posted: March 1, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Personal financial stress sometimes spills over into poor workplace performance, or perhaps employee preoccupation with trying to find more lucrative employment.
Have your say: Skills Development Survey from HR Council for Non-profit Sector
Posted: February 25, 2011 |
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Are you an executive director/CEO, HR manager or the primary staff responsible for skills development/training for employees in your organization? The HR Council is currently seeking participants who would be willing to take part in a brief online survey planned to be fielded in April.
Study: Apprenticeship-related occupations and the employment downturn
Posted: February 24, 2011 |
Category: Essential skills
Declines in Canadian employment between October 2008 and October 2009 were larger in occupations for which an apprenticeship program exists than in all other occupations combined. However, between October 2009 and October 2010, the recovery in employment was stronger in these occupations than in all other occupations.
Canada’s ministers of education urged to endorse Métis-specific forum on education, training
Posted: February 24, 2011 |
Category: Learning
At a meeting with national Aboriginal leaders and Canada’s provincial and territorial ministers of education (CMEC), Métis National Council Minister of Education Robert Doucette called for Métis-specific solutions to educational challenges.
CNIB receives interim federal funding for library operations
Posted: February 24, 2011 |
Category: Learning
CNIB is pleased to announce it has received a one-time grant from the federal government of just over $7 million to support the CNIB Library, Canada’s largest producer of alternative-format material.
Quebec boosting English immersion program for Grade 6 francophone students
Posted: February 24, 2011 |
Category: Learning
Premier Jean Charest has signalled a populist shift back to more traditional values in Quebec’s education system. The biggest education-related change will focus on improving francophone Quebecers’ use of a second language.
Publishers of digital content face uphill battle: columnist
Posted: February 24, 2011 |
Category: Learning
“Readers don’t understand how the business model is changing. And even if they did, they wouldn’t care. They want to read great content, and they want to do so in the easiest way possible.”
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