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...
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Literacy
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...
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...
Literacy in focus in France
Literacy has been declared a Cause Nationale in France, and our colleagues at the ANLCI are in focus, working at national and international level. They are planning an international conference for mid-November this year. The program will be publsihed on these pages as...