April 22, 2014
Join Essential Skills Ontario for our webinar – Career Ladders: Providing Opportunities for Ontario’s Working Adults – Monday, May 12 from 1:00-2:00PM, hosted by John MacLaughlin, Director of Research and Policy at Essential Skills Ontario; Annemarie Wesolowski, Executive Director at LNW; Jennine Agnew-Kata, Executive Director at LiNDR; and Tamara Kaattari, Executive Director at LLSC to learn about this exciting initiative.
April 9, 2014
The third bulletin - Do Skills Actually Matter When it Comes to Employment and Earnings? - examines the relationship between education and training on skill levels. It shows, among other research findings, that those who are least active in the labour force performed poorly relative to those that are employed or looking for work.
March 18, 2014
Essential Skills Ontario has just released the second of its 2014 Essential Skills Bulletins on PIAAC - the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies. Over the past several months, the research team at Essential Skills Ontario has been using the OECD’s public database to unpack and analyze PIAAC results in Canada and Ontario. The second bulletin - Do Education & Training Amount to Skills Gains? - talks about the relationship between education and training on skill levels, as well as the findings in Ontario and Canada.
March 10, 2014
Join Essential Skills Ontario for our webinar – The Workplace Training Program in B.C.: Outcomes and Learnings – April 29 from 1:00-2:00PM ET - hosted by Philip Swann from The Training Group at Douglas College and Boris Palameta from Social Research Demonstration Corporation.
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