Browse by author starting with "C"
Displaying Results 101 to 110 of 823
Previous Page [ ... 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ... ] Next Page
101. Business Results Through Essential Skills and Literacy Guidebook (2008)
Authors: Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) - Ontario Division
Collection: Research Materials
This guidebook is aimed at employers who are looking at the skills of their workforce and considering investing in improving those skills.
The authors explain what literacy and essential skills mean; how deficiencies in those areas can affect productivity; and how Canadian workplace currently rate.
The authors provide guidelines to help organizations identify current skill levels and decide what improvements are needed. They also offer advice for developing action plans that encourage employees to improve their essential skill levels in ways that also improve business results.
There are appendices explaining the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and offering links to a variety of guides, toolkits and other sources of help.
Added: 2010-02-03
102. Business Retention & Expansion Initiative Strategy (2004)
Authors: Business Retention and Expansion Leadership and Task Force Team, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Newfoundland & Labrador Division
Collection: Research Materials
The Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Initiative is an economic development tool that promotes job growth by helping communities/industries identify barriers to business growth and survival. It is a formalized, systematic, volunteer-driven process for identifying business issues and opportunities and prioritizing projects to address these needs.
This report identifies the needs and opportunities of the manufacturing sector in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Added: 2007-05-30
103. Buying a Home (2009)
Series: Self-help booklets for managing your personal finances
Authors: Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, Inc.
Collection: Learning Materials
This document, one of a series of free self-help guides prepared by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada, is aimed at first-time home buyers.
The authors explain how to decide whether you can afford to buy a house and, if so, how big a mortgage you can afford to carry. They discuss the upfront costs of home-buying, including the down payment, appraisal costs and legal fees. They also discuss other costs, like appliances, moving expenses and service hook-up fees, and offer suggestions for cutting down on expenses.
Added: 2010-07-06
104. CAC Resource Booklet (1991)
Authors: Consumer Association of Canada (CAC)
Collection: Learning Materials
Literacy checklist for banks.
Added: 1990-01-01
105. Calgary Charter on Health Literacy (2011)
Rationale and Core Principles for the Development of Health Literacy Curricula
Authors: Clifford Coleman, Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Julie McKinney, Andrew Pleasant, Irving Rootman, Linda Shohet
Collection: Research Materials
This document grew out of a three-day institute held in Calgary, Alberta, in October 2008, which brought together participants from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Participants agreed on the need to identify core principles for developing and adapting health literacy curricula. This document formally establishes those principles and urges anyone involved in developing or evaluating health literacy curricula to incorporate them.
The authors define health literacy as encompassing the use of a wide range of skills that improve the ability of people to act on information in order to live healthier lives. These skills include reading, writing, listening, speaking, numeracy, critical analysis, and interaction skills.
The authors note that health literacy applies to both individuals and to health systems, explaining that a system is health literate when it provides equal, easy and shame-free access to and delivery of health care and health information.
The authors have provided this link for anyone interested in becoming a signatory to the charter: http://www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca/health_literacy/calgary_charter.
Funders:
Added: 2011-03-25
View complete record details...
See also:
106. Can workplace learning create healthier employees? (2006)
Lessons in Learning – March 31, 2006
Series: Lessons in Learning
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Collection: Learning Materials
This paper examines whether workplace wellness programs can actually improve employees’ health and wellbeing, while enhancing an organization’s bottom line. Specifically, the authors looked at innovative workplace health and safety practices in 12 Canadian firms, both large and small, in a variety of sectors.
They concluded that workplace health pays, noting that all the workplaces studied had seen improvements either in employee health indicators, workplace performance, or financial returns. Several organizations pointed to reduced workers’ compensation premiums.
All the workplaces were sufficiently convinced of the value of their programs to continue their workplace health activities.
The authors also identify the characteristics of effective workplace wellness programs, which include clear delineation of roles and responsibilities for employees and management; the establishment of well-defined objectives; consistent gathering of data to monitor progress; and the building in of audits and reviews to assess the effectiveness of programs.
Added: 2013-03-22
View complete record details...
See also:
107. Canada slow to overcome limits for disabled learners (2007)
Lessons in Learning - February 16, 2007
Series: Lessons in Learning
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Collection: Research Materials
Learning opportunities for Canadians with disabilities are slowly improving because of technological advances that help them to overcome limitations, and because society is increasingly willing to eliminate the barriers that restrict their activities. However, the authors of this paper argue that there is still ample room for improvement.
Studies suggest that Canadians with disabilities are not achieving the same positive learning outcomes as non-disabled Canadians, nor are they reaping the same benefits in the labour market, the authors point out.
Ensuring a fuller range of opportunities for Canadians with disabilities will require a multi-lateral approach that includes changing attitudes toward people with disabilities; providing support for parents of children facing disabling conditions; creating conditions to ensure school success; encouraging and supporting further education; and accommodating people with disabling conditions in the workplace and community.
Limitations on learning can arise directly from disabling conditions, or they can be imposed by society’s unwillingness to alleviate restrictions on the activities of people with disabilities, the authors say. In either case, removing those limitations would benefit all Canadians by ensuring that those with disabilities have richer opportunities to learn and to make contributions to society.
Added: 2013-02-18
View complete record details...
See also:
108. Canada’s biggest economic challenge: Improving workplace learning in Canada (2007)
Lessons in Learning - March 15, 2007
Series: Lessons in Learning
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Collection: Research Materials
The authors of this paper argue that without a strong commitment to and investment in workplace learning, Canada might not have enough workers with the necessary skills to meet future economic challenges.
Canada is falling behind its competitors in ensuring the ongoing workforce training and development, they note. While governments and others can provide support, increasing employer investment in workplace learning and skills development is critical for Canada’s future economic success.
Among the ideas put forward to increase employer investment in workplace learning are a tax credit for firms to encourage investment in training; a training fund, with matching contributions from firms and government; a national training levy; job protection for those who leave to further their training; and greater government support for Literacy and Essential Skills training, as a public good.
The authors also encourage increased support for sector councils and sectoral initiatives, and for the pooling of resources and expertise, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises; increase awareness of the return on investment that raining offers; and active advocacy by business organizations to encourage a training culture.
Added: 2013-02-11
View complete record details...
See also:
109. Canada’s Skills Crisis: What We Heard (2012)
A Canadian Chamber of Commerce report on cross-country consultations in 2012
Authors: Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Collection: Learning Materials
This document outlines the findings of country-wide consultations carried out by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in 2012 to explore the issue of skill and labour shortages.
Three key issues emerged from the consultations: the need to upgrade the skills of existing Canadian workers; the necessity of improved connections between educators and employers; and the need to find the right approach to immigration.
As well, the roundtable discussions revealed regional preoccupations in two major areas. In the western provinces and the territories, employers emphasized the need to address education and skills gaps among Aboriginal people, who are seen as a large and valuable potential workforce.
In Eastern Canada, employers spoke about the need for more emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in the school system.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is a network of more than 420 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 192,000 businesses of all sizes in all sectors of the economy and in all regions. For more information, please click here: www.chamber.ca.
Added: 2012-10-19
View complete record details...
See also:
110. The Canadian Component of the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS): The Situation of Official Language Minorities (2006)
Series: International Adult Literacy Survey
Authors: Jean-Pierre Corbeil
Collection: Research Materials
Considering the importance of literacy and the skills that individuals require in a knowledge and information economy, it is clear that the vitality of official language minorities largely depends on them having the tools and information that they need in order to grow and develop. Because of the unfavourable situation in which many Francophones find themselves with respect to their reading, writing and numeracy skills, these communities must have data enabling them to better understand the situation of their members so that they can target their efforts more effectively.
It was in this spirit and in light of the above that this study was prepared, focusing on the literacy and skills of official language minorities as measured in the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL). This study seeks to shed light on different aspects of the processes by which official language minorities acquire literacy and language mastery.
The main national objective of the ALL survey is to produce estimates of the change in the literacy level of Canada’s adult population since the publication of data from the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS).
Added: 2007-08-09
View complete record details...
See also:
© 2012 National Adult Literacy Database
Powered by Drupal
Powered by Drupal
This project is funded by the Government of Canada’s
Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.
Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.
Comments
Comments
If you found this particular resource to be useful, please include a comment.