Human Resources committee  I think we need some standards. There's too much difference between schools in provinces. My kids went to school in five different provinces. Every time they'd change schools the curriculum was different. Fortunately, they all came out literate, but that may have been their mothe

Human Resources committee  That's a really huge problem, and I don't think one can begin to answer just off the top of one's head. It probably takes a lot of research and consultation, and that sort of thing. When I mention that, I have seen it in my own work, but I was also just bringing to you the opinio

Human Resources committee  It's not so much staying in school, but making sure you have the skills you need before you leave, so that you don't need to be retrained in the essential skills in the workplace. We're only talking about essential skills; we're not talking about job-specific skills. We're talkin

Human Resources committee  I just wanted to say that I've had an opportunity in the last four or five months to travel all the way across Canada and to visit some of the places I've lived and worked in, to talk to ordinary people across Canada. They ask what I'm doing, and I say I'm doing workplace educati

Human Resources committee  It seems that employers are faced with global competition. One thing they are doing is subscribing to more and more severe levels of standards, things like the reduction of hazardous waste or hazardous substances, and ISO standards, and things like that. They realize that if they

Human Resources committee  I can contribute the fact that I taught at community colleges and in literacy-based programs in six provincial and territorial jurisdictions in my career. One of the biggest headaches when you move from one place to another is that your source of materials changes; your curriculu

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Leslie Childs, and with me is Margan Dawson. We represent the Association of Workplace Educators of Nova Scotia. It is a group of professional adult educators who deliver the nine essential skills programs in workplaces all across Nova Scotia.