MCL is the national coalition advancing literacy and essential skills across Canada.
MCL provides leadership, knowledge and expertise about literacy and essential skills and develops partnerships with stakeholders across Canada.
Poll on Governance
Do you have good governance in place? “What is good governance?”, you ask.
At a very basic level good governance means the organization is effective: realistic outcomes are set and achieved, resources are the right ones and well managed, and the interests of stakeholders are reflected in key decisions.
Good governance is not only about being effective; it is how that effectiveness is achieved. The board’s approach to governance will play a key role in creating the climate and culture of the non-profit workplace.
If you checked “all of the above” or if you have other governance issues or comments you want to make, click here to send us a confidential email. Please put governance issue in the subject line.
Check out ABC Canada’s family literacy website for information about ways to celebrate family literacy day.
http://familyliteracyday.ca
You can find a Family Literacy Day event in your area from this link:
http://www.abc-canada.org/
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Employees in the UK will soon have the right to request time off work to attend training. The right to request time to train was included in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act, which received Royal Assent in November 2009. The introduction of the right will be phased and will be made available to employees in organisations with 250 or more employees from April 2010 before being extended to all employees from April 2011. For more information go to http://www.bis.gov.uk/time-to-train.
June 28-30, 2010, in Montreal
The Centre for Literacy of Quebec's next Summer Institute will continue to explore issues in workplace literacy and essential skills. Key questions will include:
For more information go to www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca.
MCL has just published In the Works, A compendium of projects from across the country. Click here to download a copy. Please share this link with anyone you think would be interested in the information or put a copy of the link on your website or in the next issue of your newsletter.
If you would like to have project information added to the compendium email Lindsay Kennedy and she will send you our guidelines.
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• The National Adult Literacy Database Headline News
• The Federal Government's Essential Skills website
