1986

This article is about the World Assembly of Adult Education, organized by the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) in cooperation with the Latin American Council for Adult Education (CEAAL), the Ministry of Education and Justice in Argentina and the Argentina Council for Popular Education. It was held November 24-30, 1985, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In this article, the author discusses the establishment of a Women's training resource centre in Toronto in 1986. It was planned that the centre would facilitate funding, research, evaluation, government consultation, and college affiliation as well as staff and curriculum development in the women's training field.

In this article, the authors discuss the philosophy of the federal government in 1986—to let business and the marketplace operate freely. They contend that this is not likely improve economic conditions for women. In fact, women must be concerned when the solutions to Canada's economic problems are seen as free trade, deregulation and privatization.

This article is a summary of the findings of a study of young women in Nova Scotia. It was conducted for the Secretary of State, Halifax Region.

This article discusses the under-representation of women in positions of added responsibility within Ontario High Schools in 1986.

In 1986, Martha Colquhoun was the incoming President of CCLOW. She is interviewed here by Susan McCrae Vander Voet, an independent consultant and former Executive Director of CCLOW.

The subject of this interview is Lenore Rogers, Past-President of CCLOW (1981-83). She is interviewed here by Carol Ariano, President-Elect of CCLOW (1986).

This article describes a resource booklet on poverty, Poverty in B.C., developed by End Legislated Poverty (ELP), a coalition of B.C. groups.

At the time this article was written, the author taught courses in Canadian labour history and the history of Canadian and British Columbian working women, at Capilano College in British Columbia.

In the article, she discusses the history of working class women and labour studies. She also offers advice on developing curriculum to teach women's labour history.

In this article, the author discusses Canada Employment Center's Canadian Jobs Strategy (CJS), introduced in 1985. The program focused on employment training rather than on skills development or basic education. Direct work placement for undereducated, unskilled and unemployed individuals was emphasized, with less classroom training.