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Summer Institute 2009: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills - What Works? and Why? 

June 25-27, 2009


Presentations               

 

Summer Institute 2009 brought together over 90 participants from a number of countries to share ideas, stories, and research findings on issues relating to workplace literacy and essential skills. Some participants gave presentations on programs, research and policy they were involved in. This page features those presentations, indexed by topic, with links to presentation materials where available:


Subject Index

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Essential Skills: Research, Policy and Practice  
Canada

Distribution of ESS in the Labour Force and Labour Market - Mathieu Audet, Researcher, & Bagala Biswal, Senior Research Officer, Learning Policy Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
  • Presentation not available

Teaching Essential Skills: Linking Theory and Practice - Lynda Fownes, Executive Director, Julia Lew, SkillPlan BC

New Zealand

Capturing and Measuring the Outcomes of  Workplace Literacy Programs - Katherine Percy, Chief Executive, Workbase NZ

Do Workplace Literacy, Language and Numeracy Programs Work?: Results from the NZ Upskilling Project
United Kingdom

A Framework to Embed Basic Skills in Staff and Organizational Development - Frances Graham, Head of Skills and Government Initiatives, Investors in People UK

United States

Telling the same story: Quantitative and qualitative research: “Cast-off Youth” and “Mind at Work” - Tom Sticht, International Consultant
  • Presentation not available, but click here to link to three of Dr. Sticht's reports on workforce and workplace literacy. 




Life Skills: Family, Community, and Work

Canada

Linking Family and Essential Skills to the Workplace - Elaine Cairns, Further Education Society of Alberta (FESA)

Recognizing Life’s Work: Linking life skills to work - Cindy Davidson, QUILL Network, Ontario




Minority Groups and Workplace and Essential Skills

Canada

Delivering Essential Skills to Hutterites via Interactive Television - Roger Loewen, Assiniboine College, Manitoba
Essential Skills for Immigrant professionals: The role of culture -  Leslie Levant, Bow Valley College, Alberta




Provincial Workplace and Essential Skills Programs
Manitoba  

Workplace Education Manitoba - Sandi Howell, Coordinator of Essential Skills and Recognizing Prior Learning (RPL), Industry Workforce Development, Manitoba Competitiveness, Training and Trade
Nova Scotia



 

Skill Upgrade

Canada

Employment Track Express: Who’s on the passenger list? - Karen Coutts, QUILL Network, Ontario



Unions

Canada

Workplace Literacy and Learning: Lessons from CUPE - Maria Moriarty, Canadian Union of Public Employees



 

 





         
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