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East Hants Adult Learning Association
Category: Learning
This association is a non-profit volunteer organization that addresses the learning needs of adults in East Hants. Through partnerships, their goal is to promote and facilitate lifelong learning for the enrichment of our community.
East Parry Sound Literacy Council
Category: Learning
This group provides free one-on-one tutoring and small group classes to adults in various locations throughout East Parry Sound.
East Prince Youth Development Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The East Prince Youth Development Centre offers programs in four key areas: employment assistance and vocational planning, academic upgrading and literacy enhancement, personal health and wellness, and information technology and computer skills.
East York Learning Experience
Category: Learning
This is a non-profit adult literacy program serving East York, parts of east Toronto, and west Scarborough. Their objective is to reduce the social and economic barriers of adult literacy students.
ECO (Environmental Careers Organization) Canada
Category: Essential skills
With a solid reputation in the field of human resource management, ECO Canada's services reach all participants of the environmental sector including employers, practitioners, educators and students. ECO Canada offers multimedia career-planning tools such as profiles of environmental professionals, a career-matching tool, and a video library. These tools have been customized to meet the needs of students, mid-career practitioners, and those seeking to explore career options within the environmental profession.
Edmonton Community Adult Learning Association (ECALA)
Category: Learning
ECALA actively engages in the community by hosting adult education focus groups on a variety of topics and by partnering on a variety of events, for example: International Literacy Day. They are partners in the development, coordination and provision of learning opportunities for adult learners with barriers in Edmonton.
Edmonton Public Library
Category: Learning
Some of the services offered at the Edmonton Public Library are : Information Services, Programmes and Events, Children's Services, Home Service and Enhanced Access, etc. Literacy and ESL (English as a Second Language) resources are available at all branches of the Library. These resources are available in a variety of formats - book(s), cassette(s), and videos.
Edson & District Community Learning Society
Category: Learning
A group of individuals, agencies and local organizations who work as a coordinating body in identifying and fulfilling the learning needs of the adults in the community.
education411.com
Category: Essential skills
Browse schools, programs, articles and more - all matched to your location.
Educational Guidance Service for Adults (EGSA)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
EGSA (Educational Guidance Service for Adults) aims to encourage all adults to engage in learning and to manage their careers. EGSA is committed to the view that learning enables adults to take control of their lives.
Education and Skills Wales
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The government of Wales aims to ensure that children and young people have improved levels of literacy and numeracy in addition to access to a broad and balanced curriculum. It is also the government objective to see that practitioners deliver high-quality teaching, training and leadership and that everyone has access to high-quality training to gain the right skills to increase sustainable employment and business growth.
Education at Work Ontario
Category: Essential skills
Education at Work Ontario (EWO) strives to promote and foster co-operative education of the highest quality, while ensuring an integral partnership involving students, employers and post-secondary educational institutions. EWO has a membership of over 180 co-op educators, working with more than 40,000 co-op students, at 37 colleges and universities.
Education Index
Category: Learning
The Education Index at PhDs.org is the Internet’s premier source of updated, clear educational data about undergraduate and graduate programs in the United States. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the index allows students to search for and rank college programs in the U.S. using special filters. The data spans both undergraduate and graduate institutions at all degree levels.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Category: Essential skills
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an Internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature indexed from 1966 to the present. ERIC also contains a growing collection of full-text materials in PDF format including reports from the What Works Clearinghouse.
Effective Literacy Practice
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Experience exchange and knowledge transfer are crucial means of promoting literacy and numeracy efforts. In order to encourage all key players to share their experiences and gain inspiration from innovative approaches in the field of literacy, this website provides a selection of effective adult literacy and numeracy programs from all regions of the world.
Electricity Sector Council (ESC)
Category: Essential skills
Committed to the research and resolution of human resource and workplace development issues, the Electricity Sector Council has a host of resources for career-seekers, employees and sector stakeholders. The council includes a nation-wide partnership with industry, business, educators, governments and labour to give a collaborative perspective to develop a skilled, safe and sustainable workforce now and in the future.
Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning and Development Board
Category: Essential skills
Workforce Planning Boards gather intelligence about the supply of labour and the demand side of the local labour market by working with employers to identify and meet their current and emerging skills needs. The Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning and Development Board is one of 25 organizations across the province forming the Workforce Planning Ontario network.
ELSA Net
Category: Learning
The purpose of ELSA Net is to facilitate the effective delivery of English Language Services for Adults throughout the Province of British Columbia taking into account and recognizing regional differences and needs.
EmployerRegistry.ca
Category: Essential skills
EmployerRegistry.ca is Ontario’s free online community connecting employers and tomorrow’s workforce. Developed in 2008, the bilingual site acts as a single point of contact for employers looking to get involved with short, medium and long-term educational programs, ranging from one-hour career talks to full-semester cooperative education.
Employer’s Roadmap
Category: Essential skills
The Employer’s Roadmap is a tool for employers, human resources professionals, recruiters and managers in small to medium-sized enterprises who are interested in hiring internationally trained workers. It addresses questions many employers have such as how to recruit, assess and select these workers. It also includes suggestions on how to integrate and retain them once they become new employees.
Employment and Education Centre
Category: Essential skills
The Employment & Education Centre is a not-for-profit agency that helps individuals reach their potential through education, employment, volunteering and financial counselling. The centre’s services are designed to give people the training and/or experience they need to become employable.
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
Category: Essential skills
If workforce development is your mantra, this US Department of Labor site is definitely a place to stop. It offers various and sundry fact sheets, profiles, contacts and all the SCANS (Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) reports you’ll ever need.
Employment Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
With services right across Ontario available to assist you, Employment Ontario will help you get the training, skills and experience you need to achieve your goals. Through this website people looking for work are connected with employers looking for workers. Links will also take you to labour market information, post-secondary education options, and the Ontario job bank. The toll-free number for Employment Ontario is 1-800-387-5656.
Employment Projects of Winnipeg
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Employment Projects of Winnipeg Inc. is a client-centered, market-driven organization, demonstrating leadership and excellence in the design and delivery of innovative, employment focused programs and services leading to job seekers' full participation in the workforce.
Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development
Category: Learning
This web-based resource was developed by the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network to help provide answers to questions about children's language and literacy – answers that are based on relevant and up-to-date research presented in an easily accessible format.
Engaged Learning
Category: Essential skills
Using adult learning principles and theories, Engaged Learning builds online and instructor-led courses that support rapid achievement of real-life projects. The programs capitalize on what learners do spontaneously and get users started immediately on tasks they want to accomplish.
English Express: A website for adult learners
Category: Learning
This website for adult learners has articles from a newspaper called English Express, where you can read or print articles. You can also listen and read along. You can read about people, animals and holidays, or about news stories. It also has a section for teachers and tutors.
English Language Tutoring for the Ottawa Community (ELTOC)
Category: Learning
ELTOC provides home tutoring for adult immigrants who cannot attend regular English programs. Once a week, students receive free, one-on-one instruction in their homes by volunteer tutors. Emphasis is given to practical English skills that allow newcomers to integrate into Canadian life.
Enhancing Pathways
Category: Learning
This site provides information about supporting and facilitating service coordination between adult literacy and language programs within various communities.
Enterprise Network
Category: Essential skills
Smart businesses, whether large, small or in between, invest in employee skills and training. The Enterprise Network’s community economic development agencies in New Brunswick are available to help you start or grow a business. The agencies coordinate labour force development initiatives, offering services that include human resources planning, training and subsidies.
Entrepreneurship, Training and Trade
Category: Essential skills
This business and workforce development resource has sections for job seekers, trainers and employers. It provides easy access to information about programs, services and opportunities, all designed to assist individuals, support growth for Manitoba business, meet provincial labour demands and expand the province’s trade relations.
Eskilon Learning Solutions Inc.
Category: Essential skills
Eskilon Learning provides a suite of software and courseware tools and resources for young adult and adult education in areas such as essential skills upgrading, employment readiness, apprenticeship preparation, literacy, GED and college preparation. Eskilon is located in Ontario but serves clients from across Canada.
ESL Literacy Network
Category: Learning
The ESL Literacy Network is an innovative website that responds to the needs of Learners with Interrupted Formal Education (LIFE) and addresses the professional development needs of ESL literacy practitioners in Alberta. Funded by Alberta Employment and Immigration, this site showcases comprehensive, research-based information, resources and tools.
ESPORT, the essential skills portfolio
Category: Essential skills
ESPORT is a basic skills assessment and planning tool to help people prepare for entry level occupations. ESPORT with PLATO Essential Skills Online offers a supported learning program tailored to the occupation you choose.
Essential Skills at Work in the North
Category: Essential skills
By clicking on various posters on this interactive display board, visitors can learn about each job outlined, the training and background required for each, and the skills needed to do the work successfully. The job profiles include information about how the essential skills are used in each job.
Essential Skills Database - HRSDC
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This database provides detailed information about how Essential Skills are used in particular occupations. If you are exploring career options or considering an enhancement or change in your job, you may find it more useful to consult resources that focus on personal career planning.
Essential Skills for Ontario Tradespeople
Category: Essential skills
Studies show that apprentices are eight times more likely to succeed in the trades if they have the essential skills they need. This website helps you build these skills. It gives you the opportunity to: research essential skills for 53 Red Seal trades, take online assessments to see how your skills measure up, and build your skills with customized learning plans using free online materials.
Essential Skills for the Changing Workplace
Category: Essential skills
The Essential Skills for the Changing Workplace Project offers small and medium-sized employers free seminars and consulting services to help them develop their employee skill levels and ultimately improve the efficiency and productivity of their organizations. An initiative of the Centre for Education and Training, the project is designed to help workplaces integrate essential skills into their human resources practices. This project was completed in 2010.
Essential Skills in the Gaming Industry
Category: Essential skills
The Developing Essential Skills for the Gaming/Casino Industry in Canada project seeks to increase the essential skill levels of current and prospective gaming employees across Canada. Its focus is on training Aboriginal and new Canadians for the gaming workforce. On this website, you'll find information to help you choose a career, an outline of essential skills required for a variety of casino positions in addition to essential skills workbooks to help you be successful in the industry.
Essential Skills Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Essential Skills Ontario (ESO) is a non-profit organization that works to find the most innovative, efficient and effective solutions that provide adults with the skills they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world. The organization believes that education and training are pathways to a better future for many adults and that by advancing the skills of Ontarians, ESO is advancing the health of families, communities and the long-term economy.
European Association for the Education of Adults
The EAEA is a transnational, non-profit association whose purpose is to link and represent European organisations which are directly involved in adult learning. Its primary focus is NGOs whose principal aim is the education of adults, and it works where possible through national co-ordinating bodies for adult learning.
Excellence Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market
Founded in 1992 by Industry Canada, Excellence Canada is an independent, not-for-profit, organization that is committed to advancing organizational excellence across many sectors throughout Canada. As Canada’s national authority on Quality and Healthy Workplace® practices, Excellence Canada has created a uniquely Canadian model, providing measurable standards for all Canadian organizations.
Excellence Gateway
Category: Essential skills
The Excellence Gateway provides access to education information and resources from the UK for education and training practitioners working at all levels in the learning and skills sector. Users can search for news and event information or information resources collated from a number of learning and skills-related sites.
Explore My Future Career Awareness Expo
Category: Essential skills
Explore My Future connects high school students to a broad range of post-secondary education and career options. It gives students an opportunity to meet people who work in careers in which they may be interested and encourages students to explore these options through appropriate post-secondary education or apprenticeship programs after graduation.
Exploring Adult Literacy: The Electronic Journal of the Adult Learning Division of the College Reading Association
Exploring Adult Literacy (EAL) is an evolving electronic journal intended to address the needs of adult literacy practitioners in adult basic education, family literacy and workplace literacy.
The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)
EURYDICE produces reliable, readily comparable information on national education systems and policies. EURYDICE also acts as an observatory, highlighting both the diversity of systems and their common features.
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