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NIACE takes international prize for contributions to digital learning
Posted: December 23, 2010 | 
Category: Learning
NIACE has won first prize in the 2010 UNESCO King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education.
UK outreach program encourages adults to get on learning bandwagon in 2011
Posted: December 23, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Sign Up Now, a UK outreach initiative from NIACE, encourages all adults to take up learning during 2011, which is also the European Year of Volunteering.
Ontario hit hard by cuts to immigrant settlement centres
Posted: December 23, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Groups that help immigrants settle in Ontario will receive less money simply because fewer newcomers are moving to the province, Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney says.
Tom Sticht, international consultant in adult education, writes about his memories of Canada and the time he spent travelling with Charles Ramsey, NALD’s former executive director.
Family literacy activities for the holidays
Posted: December 22, 2010 | | Family Literacy Day
| Family Literacy DayCategory: Learning
Learning can take place during a variety of family activities. This material, adapted by the NWT Literacy Council, originates with the Reading and Parents Program developed by Kingston Literacy.
Money-wise: The growing importance of financial literacy in Canada
Posted: December 21, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Increasingly Canadians are faced with a complex array of financial decisions to make in their everyday lives, from choosing a mortgage and retirement planning to managing consumer debt and funding for post-secondary education.
Eight ways technology is helping to improve education
Posted: December 20, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Don Knezek, the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education, compares education without technology to the medical profession without technology.
Start 2011 off right by resolving to succeed in your studies. These 10 suggestions can help.
Innovative research investigates importance of reading to newborns in NICU
Posted: December 17, 2010 | | Family Literacy Day
| Family Literacy DayCategory: Learning
The first few days after birth is an important time, where babies learn to recognize the sound of their parents’ voice and the parents in turn bond with their children.
Play for Literacy: ABC’s online activity book coming soon
Posted: December 17, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Family Literacy Day activity book available free online thanks to support from HSBC Bank Canada.
Call for papers: A special issue of the Canadian Review of Social Policy (PDF)
Posted: December 15, 2010 |
Category: Learning
The Canadian Review of Social Policy is calling for contributions to a special issue entitled How the Social Economy Supports, Challenges and Innovates Canadian Social Policy, to be published in 2011.
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada
Posted: December 13, 2010 |
Category: Learning
Statistics Canada has released a new issue of its free, online publication Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada. The issue contains an article on ‘trade qualifiers’ in the skilled trades and another on trends in age composition in post-secondary education.
Interactive Family Literacy Day map will paint Canada orange
Posted: December 9, 2010 | | Family Literacy Day
| Family Literacy DayCategory: Learning
ABC Life Literacy Canada is looking to turn Canada orange in support of Family Literacy Day as a new interactive, events-tracking map is unveiled online at FamilyLiteracyDay.ca.
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