National Adult Literacy Database

“This conversation requires honesty and rigorous self-examination by everyone – First Nations communities, professional educators, and politicians from band council to provincial legislature to federal Parliament and, not least, citizens in the mainstream. All of us have a deep vested interest in fixing what needs to be fixed.”

Michael Connelly, author of The Fifth Witness, says that browsing through physical books brings inspiration of the kind that led him from wandering his campus library’s stacks straight to a writing career.

Earlier this year NIACE heard from a number of learning providers in the UK concerned about the changing provision for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities, especially those on Foundation Learning programs.

In an effort to better serve its clients and stakeholders across the broad spectrum of literacy and essential skills, the National Adult Literacy Database (NALD) is pleased to inform you about several enhancements.

Each month NALD releases Library user statistics in a feature known as the Top 20 downloads/20 Plus téléchargés.

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.

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.

Students are diving deeper into creative problem-solving by focusing on project-based learning, says PEI Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Doug Currie.

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.

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.

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.

The Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning is one of a number of programs and projects aimed at helping adult learners reach their full potential as part of the jobsHere plan to grow Nova Scotia’s economy.

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.

Funding of up to $70,000 is available for qualifying communities interested in forming community partnerships to assess their local literacy needs and resources, and prepare a proposal for submission to the SaskSmart Innovations Fund for 2012-13.