1996

This report synthesizes the results of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), for Canada. IALS was a seven-country investigation undertaken in the fall of 1994. Its main goal was to create comparable literacy profiles across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. Highlights from the Canada Report include :

This information kit defines Workplace Education, describes its benefits, and provides information about opportunities for organizations to invest in upgrading for their employees.

This submission from the Movement for Canadian Literacy looks at the way in which Bill C-12: an Act respecting employment insurance in Canada, will support the development of Canada's human resources, and in particular how it will affect the millions of Canadians who have difficulty with the literacy demands they encounter each day at home, in their communities and in their jobs.

Findings of a project dealing with the balance of an organization`s resources directed towards recruitment, assessment and training of volunteers and students, and the resources directed towards retention of existing volunteers and students.

Frances Ennis and Helen Woodrow edited this book about women`s work in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries.

Recommended for children under the age of 9 and written in words, language and illustrations that they can understand, this book contains brief and concise 'overviews' of numerous afflictions and illnesses.

This is the on-line edition of Readers` Magazine, developed for the children and parents of the elementary schools in Medicine Hat, by the Family Literacy Action Group (F.L.A.G.).

A resource detailing a pilot project`s testing of program evaluation tools, with findings and recommendations.

These First Nations Literacy Theme Units have been developed for First Nations groups in British Columbia who are working together to improve their literacy skills.

A guide introducing the various forms of electronic information.