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National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NAAF is a charitable organization dedicated to raising funds for programs that provide the tools necessary for Aboriginal peoples, especially youth, to achieve their potential. The foundation, through its education program, has awarded scholarships and bursaries to more than 9,800 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students nationwide.
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
Category: Essential skills
NALA in conjunction with FAS, Ireland’s national training and employment authority, is developing a literacy support model to address basic education needs in the workplace for the Services to Business section of FAS. This project will take place under the Skills for Work initiative funded through the Workplace Basic Education Fund.
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA Ireland)
The NATIONAL ADULT LITERACY AGENCY (NALA) is the co-ordinating, training and campaigning body for all those interested and involved in adult literacy work in Ireland.
National Adult Literacy Database Inc.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NALD is a comprehensive, up-to-date and easily accessible database of literacy and essential skills-related classroom and research materials that are available free to download. NALD also functions as a portal to adult literacy resources and services across Canada.
National Assessment of Adult Literacy 2002
The NAAL 2002 will assess the current status of the English-language literacy skills of adults in the United States, as well as indicate how literacy proficiencies have changed over time. Reports, sources and information about the NAAL '92 are all available here.
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES studies cover the entire educational spectrum, providing the facts and figures needed to help policymakers understand the condition of education in the nation today, to give researchers a foundation of data to build upon, and to help teachers and administrators decide on best practices for their schools.
National Center for Family Literacy
A nonprofit educational organization whose mission is the advancement and support of family literacy services for millions of families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy, and dissemination of information about family literacy
National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NCSALL is a federally funded research and development centre focused solely on adult learning. The centre’s efforts are dedicated to improving practice in educational programs that serve adults with limited literacy and English language skills, and those without a high school diploma.
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This site points to the NCVER Adult Literacy and Numeracy Research Program Funded by the Department of Education Science and Training. The aim of this program is to provide funding for research that contributes to improved policy development and practice in adult literacy. A range of publications are available.
National Coalition for Literacy
The National Coalition for Literacy's Charter is to serve as the umbrella organization for the advancement of literacy in the United States.
National Commission on Adult Literacy
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The National Commission on Adult Literacy is an independent panel of leaders from labour, business, government, education, literacy and philanthropy. The commission hopes to bring about fundamental legislative change in federal and state policy, increase business and philanthropic engagement in adult education and literacy, and raise public awareness that the adult learning system is integral to people’s lives and the nation’s future.
National Council for Workforce Education
Category: Essential skills
The National Council for Workforce Education is an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges with a vision of developing and sustaining a premier workforce for the global economy. A new study in which NCWE played a role and which is available on the website is titled Building Tomorrow’s Workforce: Promoting the Education and Advancement of Hispanic Immigrant Workers in America.
National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS)
The National Educational Association of Disabled Students is a consumer organization, with a mandate to encourage the self-empowerment of post-secondary students with disabilities. NEADS advocates for increased accessibility at all levels so that disabled students may gain equal access to college or university education, which is their right.
National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Category: Essential skills
The mission of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is to improve employment, training and labour market outcomes for low-income individuals. The fund’s vision is that its support will improve both the quality of jobs and the capacity of workers. It will promote change at three levels – individual, institution, and system – leading to better jobs, better workers and a better workforce development system.
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
The NIACE exists to encourage more and different adults to engage in learning of all kinds. They campaign for – and celebrate the achievements of – adult learners, young and old, and in all their diversity. NIACE is the largest organisation working to promote the interests of learners and potential learners in England and Wales.
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
Category: Essential skills
The aim of NIACE is to advance the interests of adult learners and potential learners. NIACE is committed to supporting an increase in the total numbers of adults engaged in formal and informal learning in England and Wales. It also strives to improve opportunities and widen access to learning opportunities for those communities that are currently under-represented.
National Life / Work Centre (NLWC)
Category: Essential skills
NLWC brings world-class life/work development programs to the widest possible audiences through innovative partnerships with public and private sector agencies across Canada and internationally. The objective is to help people of all ages become self-reliant, make informed choices and find satisfying and fulfilling work and lifestyles in today’s rapidly changing labour markets.
National Literacy Mission - India
The National Literacy Mission seeks to impart functional literacy to all non-literate persons in the 15-35 age group.
National Literacy Trust
The National Literacy Trust is a charity set up in 1993 to work in partnership with others to enhance literacy standards throughout the UK. The Trust's central purpose is to play a strategic role in stimulating and supporting the thinking and practical delivery necessary for building a literate nation.
National Reading Campaign
Category: Learning
In 2008 a group of volunteers, including writers, teachers, librarians, parents and publishers, got together to talk about a nationwide way to make Canada a country of readers. The group has grown and organized three national summits which provided an opportunity to learn about the national reading plans around the world, to discuss the best of the many innovative programs already in place in Canada, and to use this information as a base for developing a National Reading Plan. What have you read today?
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The mission of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education is to improve the engagement, achievement and transition of high school and post-secondary career and technical education (CTE) students through technical assistance to states, professional development for CTE practitioners and dissemination of knowledge derived from scientifically based research.
National Seafood Sector Council
Category: Essential skills
The National Seafood Sector Council is a unique partnership, bringing together employers, employees, unions, associations, regulatory agencies and private trainers to work toward one common goal: a strong and prosperous seafood processing industry created by a well-trained and productive workforce. To help meet its goals, the council has an essential skills website in addition to a career focus program for youth.
National Work Readiness Credential
Category: Essential skills
The National Work Readiness Credential was developed through a five-year, national consensus-building process that included businesses, unions, chambers of commerce, education and training professionals. The organization’s mission is to assure excellence and inspire innovation in the entry level workplace by producing quality work readiness standards and assessments.
Native Education Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Native Education Centre in Vancouver has been offering culturally relevant education and training programs to the Aboriginal community since 1967. In the beginning, the Centre was devoted to a Native Education Initiative which focused on pre-employment preparation. Since then, a broader role was sought with expanded programs in both academic upgrading and skills training.
Native Women's Association of the N.W.T.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This group provides training and education programs for native women in the Western Arctic so they can function more effectively in areas that affect their lives.
Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto
Category: Learning
The Native Women’s Resource Centre offers life-enhancing resources, cultural ceremonies and teachings, skills development, and programs to build a collective capacity and celebrate native culture. Programs fall under five broad categories: Housing and Advocacy, Youth, Parenting, Employment & Education and Culture & Spirit.
New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL)
Category: Learning
NALL's basic objectives are to document current relations between informal learning and formal/nonformal education, identify major social barriers to integrating informal learning with formal/nonformal programs and certification, and support new program initiatives that promise to overcome such barriers.
New Brunswick Aboriginal Workplace Essential Skills Project
Category: Essential skills
The New Brunswick Aboriginal Workplace Essential Skills project is designed to strengthen the skills, knowledge and attitudes that Mi’kmaq and Maliseet adults need to succeed in today’s workplace. Project pilot sites are located at St. Thomas University in Fredericton and on the NBCC campus in Miramichi.
New Brunswick Association for Community Living (NBACL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NBACL works on behalf of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families to build inclusive communities where all persons can live, learn, work and actively participate in their communities as valued and contributing members. This website provides access to four “opportunity links” including Transition from School to Work for Youth with Disabilities and Employing Workers with Intellectual Disabilities.
New Brunswick Career Development Action Group
Category: Essential skills
The New Brunswick Career Development Action Group is a non-profit partnership organization committed to career development in New Brunswick. It is governed by a board of directors made up of elected members from all areas of the career development field. The organization encourages cooperation, coordination, networking and information sharing among its members and with other groups.
New Brunswick Community Colleges (NBCC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The mission of NBCC is to provide quality training and educational products and services in New Brunswick to prepare for existing and emerging occupations, and to support adult basic education, general educational development, personal growth and lifelong learning.
New Brunswick Family Resource Centres
Category: Learning
Thirteen Family Resource Centres, funded through the Community Action Program for Children (CAPC), operate in New Brunswick . They offer a variety of programs and activities for parents and their children ages 0 - 6, including drop-ins, parent education and support groups, collective kitchens, and toy and resource-lending libraries.
New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Category: Essential skills
The policies and practices of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour reflect its commitment to equality. The federation believes in the rights of all people to be treated equally and with mutual respect in workplaces, in society and in labour organizations.
New Brunswick Home Support Association
Category: Learning
The objective of this association is to provide clear flow of communication for all home support agency members, to share ideas and strategies and to act as a liason with other Home Support Associations in Canada.
New Brunswick Public Libraries Foundation
Category: Learning
This is a charitable organization that raises funds in support of New Brunswick’s public library system.
New Brunswick Public Library Service
Category: Learning
The public library system provides access to a collection of more than 1.8 million items, as well as to different programs and services. It promotes self-reliance by providing opportunities for New Brunswickers to enhance their knowledge and creative capabilities.
New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network (NBSPRN)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network (NBSPRN) is a network of people engaged in activities that contribute to evidence-based public policy development. It includes researchers, academics, sectoral experts, practitioners, policy analysts, and informed citizens. NBSPRN provides a mechanism whereby government policy developers can connect with researchers and informed communities for the purpose of creating policy grounded in research evidence, offering experts an opportunity to conduct work relevant to socio-economic development.
Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council
Category: Learning
Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council is a provincial, non-profit volunteer organization that is committed to raising the literacy level of Newfoundland society.
New Learning Technologies in Language Classrooms
This is a professional development project involving a mentoring model which introduces Adult Literacy and ESL teachers to New Learning technologies and supports them in implementing NLT into the language classroom. It uses an action research model with teachers keeping journals and meeting regularly for training and support.
Newspapers in Education - Calgary Herald
Category: Learning
This is the online gateway to Calgary. It provides job and marketplace information, news, telephone directory, web search, etc.
New Zealand Literacy Portal
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The New Zealand Literacy Portal has catalogued information about workplace literacy and the site allows users to browse by context and by country. Government funding for on-site workplace literacy programs in New Zealand is administered by the Tertiary Education Commission.
Next Step: Literacy Council of South Simcoe
Category: Learning
The Literacy Council of South Simcoe is dedicated to providing and promoting literacy skills in the community.
nextSteps.org
Category: Essential skills
This unique career-development and job-finding resource for youth offers features that include career profiles, video highlights, Employer Spotlight of the Month, and the steps to success: career planning, job seeking and career maintenance. The website is funded by the City of Calgary, the Government of Alberta and Industry Canada.
Niagara College
Category: Learning
Niagara College offers one, two and three-year programs in administrative and justice studies; business and entrepreneurship; communications and information technology; hospitality and tourism; post-graduate studies; apprenticeship training; international education; and a full range of courses and services in continuing education and customized training for business and industry.
Niagara Regional Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The Niagara Regional Literacy Council is a charitable organization who provides free one-on-one tutoring to adults in the St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Thorold and surrounding areas. They teach reading, math, spelling, writing, workplace skills, basic computer and life skills.
Niagara West Employment & Learning Resource Centres
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Services provided by these centres include basic and workforce skills upgrading and computer and software training. They also provide job search assistance and support in the area of academic and career exploration/development both for the unemployed and underemployed.
NL HR Manager, The
Category: Essential skills
Small and medium-sized employers are invited to use this comprehensive kit of human resources tools. The NL HR Manager features ideas and tips, practical guides, checklists, downloadable templates and links to other relevant resources to help you find, keep and develop valued employees.
Nokee Kwe Occupational Skill Development Inc.
Category: Learning
The mission of Nokee Kwe, founded on Aboriginal principles, is dedicated to creating, promoting and sustaining culturally sensitive environments, which encourage and support personal development and self-determination.
NorQuest College: Continuing Education - Academic Upgrading
Category: Learning
The NorQuest College experience enables adult students to embrace new challenges and overcome obstacles. With daytime and evening classes, work experience opportunities, and individualized learning plans, NorQuest gives students more options in achieving their employment and educational goals.
North Bay Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The North Bay Literacy Council is an organization of volunteers that helps individuals improve their reading, writing and math skills, each according to need.
Northeast Regional Technology in Education Consortium (NetTech)
NetTech is a partnership designed to provide the vision, experience, and expertise needed to assist schools (K-12) and other educational institutions in planning, implementing, continuously evaluating, and refining effective educational uses of technology.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
Category: Essential skills
A NAIT education creates opportunities for students to gain practical skills that are in demand and to use the latest technology. Students also make industry contacts and gain relevant work experience that will lead to employment in Alberta’s industries.
Northern College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Northern College offers one, two and three-year programs leading graduates to employment in the fields of technology, business, human services, health and emergency services and veterinary sciences. It also offers post-diploma, apprenticeship, skills and job re-entry programs.
Northern Lights College - Career and College Preparation
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Programs at NLC are designed to provide you with the opportunity to obtain the necessary classroom education, and supplement that with appropriate practicums or hands-on opportunities to make the successful transition from student to employee.
Northern Literacy Networks
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Learning Networks of Northern Ontario (LNNO) are Literacy Northwest, Literacy Network Northeast and The Mid-North Network. They work together to respond to the unique challenges and training needs of the north. The LNNO mandate is to support and promote the delivery of quality literacy and essential skills training for adults.
Northern Workplace / Workforce Literacy Partnership
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This group of educators, employers and government officials from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories has a strong interest in workplace and workforce literacy development in the north. Members of the partnership created this website to provide information about literacy programs and policies that support good practice in both the workplace and in preparing people to participate in the workforce.
North Island College
Category: Essential skills
With over 900 courses and 70 credit programs in health care, trades, business, fine arts, tourism, and university studies, NIC offers the education and skills training needed to reach your goal, with the flexibility and support to make it achievable.
Northlands College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Literacy Program at Northlands College includes these services: TEL for Literacy Learners Program, Family Literacy Program, Plain Language Development and TOWES (Testing of Workplace Essential Skills).
Northwest Community College - Adult Special Education
Category: Learning
The College provides accessible education by offering innovative courses. Adults with special education needs can acquire basic knowledge leading to fuller participation in the community. Some of the courses offered are : Functional literacy, Survival Math, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Profile and Career Planning, etc.
Northwest Territories Literacy Council
Category: Learning
This is a literacy council which promotes literacy in the Northwest Territories in all official languages by providing information about literacy, programs and resources.
Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning
Category: Learning
Since 2001, the Nova Scotia School for Adult Learning (NSSAL) has provided educational programs for Nova Scotians. The adult learner, educator and general public links will lead you to further information on their programs, services and useful resources.
Nova Scotia Workplace Education
Category: Essential skills
The government of Nova Scotia works with employers and industry to ensure that Nova Scotians have the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. This website has useful information for both employees and employers in addition to testimonials from individuals who have come to realize that skills development is an investment in the future of businesses and in the provincial economy.
Nunavut Arctic College
Category: Essential skills
The goal of Nunavut Arctic College is to provide support to students in all areas of their development so they can achieve personally set goals, become well-equipped to contribute and serve their families and communities, and be able to participate and contribute as Nunavut takes on new roles in the global community. Programs offered at the college’s three campuses and 24 community learning centres serve the needs of students, government and business.
Nunavut Library Association
Category: Learning
The Nunavut Library Association provides a forum for discussion, encouragement and professional development for its members. It's mission is to support anyone working in or with Nunavut libraries and to represent all types of libraries in Nunavut. The association serves as an advocate for excellent library services for Nunavummiut with all levels of government and other agencies, and promotes library services and literacy in the official languages of Nunavut.
Nunavut Literacy Council
Category: Learning
This is a literacy council that promotes literacy in Nunavut in all official languages by providing information about literacy, programs and resources.
Nunavut Municipal Training Organization
Category: Essential skills
The mandate of the Nunavut Municipal Training Organization is to identify, develop and implement programs to provide municipal staff with skills and knowledge that can contribute to excellence in municipal program and service delivery across the territory.
The Neil Squire Society
The Neil Squire Society developed innovative programs and services and some of the world's leading edge adaptive technology for people with severe physical disabilities. Over 5,000 disabled people in Canada have benefitted from the work of the Society.
Workplace Learning
Category: Essential skills
The Campaign for Learning’s National Workplace Learning Network has been set up to support individuals and organizations interested in developing a culture of learning in the workplace. Membership is free and open to anyone with an interest in workplace learning. Members are able to access a wide range of resources, share good practice via the online expertise exchange and discussion board, receive updates on networking and events, as well as have a say on workplace learning issues.
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