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OECD to release PIAAC results on October 8
Mark your calendar! On October 8, 2013, OECD will be releasing the first results from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). While we are waiting for the results we reccommend you all to read NIACE's interesting briefing note on...
Illettrisme, Grande Cause Nationale 2013
On March 1st this year, a group of 66 French stakeholders in our field, led by our French EBSN member, the ANLCI, obtained from the French Prime minister the Label Grande Cause Nationale. The label “grande cause nationale” is given each year to a different cause...
Consultation on partnerships in Erasmus+: make your voice heard!
The Education, Training and Youth Forum 2013 will take place in Brussels on 17-18 October. The Forum promotes the idea of “Working together for Reforms” and emphasises the need for policy makers and key stakeholders to work in partnership, in order to foster the...
Description of Teachers´ Competence
What is required of a professional teacher of initial and functional literacies to adults whose mother tongue is not a Nordic language? The Nordic Adult Literacy Network, Alfarådet, has drawn up a description of the competencies required for this complex task. Go to...
Grundtvig Workshops 2013-2014
Workshops enable adult learners to participate in learning events and seminars taking place in a European country other than their own. They bring together professionals working within the field of adult literacy, from several countries, in order to improve their...
The ALFIE project has come to an end after two years of fruitful learning partnership co-operation
ALFIE, Alphabetisation of Immigrants to Europe, was a Learning Partnership within the Grundtvig / LLP programme, and it gathered policy makers, researchers, teacher training institutions and training providers in the field of “alphabetization” (initial literacy) for...
IVQ (Information and Everyday Life): more than a national survey
The IVQ survey focuses (at national or regional level) on representative samples of the general French population, and among other goals tries to identify the proportion of people with low literacy levels among the overall population. In the paper “IVQ: more than a...
Literacy and Basic Skills Community (Google+)
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Canadian Centre for Literacy – Fall Institute 2013
Registration has opened for the Canadian Centre for Literacy Fall Institute, to be held in Montreal on October 27-29, soon after the release of the PIAAC results. Invitees for the Fall Institute include British economist Francis Green, who has studied employability...