July 1997

Series: WWestNet's The bottom line

By: Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)

This issue of the newsletter contains articles about the completion of a needs assessment of essential skills by the Construction Owners’ Association of Alberta; crossing cultural gaps with workers for whom English is a second language; and the establishment of WoodLINKS, a partnership between the British Columbia education system and the wood-products industry to increase awareness of careers in that field.

Other articles focus on a workplace education program in Saskatchewan’s mining sector; the formation of a professional association for workplace educators in Manitoba; and plans for a conference in British Columbia on plain language.

Keywords:

• Adult education
• Cultural awareness
• English in the workplace
• Immigrants
• Needs assessment
• Youth

Subjects:

• Adult Literacy
• Curriculum Development
• ESL-English as a Second Language
• Literacy
• Multicultural Issues
• Workplace Literacy
• Youth

Publishers:

• Western Canada Workplace Essential Skills Training Network (WWestNet)

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