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Learning Link: April 2, 2009

Report on rural education reviews progress and successes

Rural Education: A Review of Provincial and Territorial Initiatives 2009 provides a profile of the progress being made in overcoming the challenges faced by Manitoba’s rural schools. It also presents initiatives undertaken across the country, information that will be useful to educators and rural communities throughout Canada.

This review is the result of a partnership to pursue research on top-priority issues by CCL and Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth.

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Lessons in Learning—Post-secondary education in Canada: Who is missing out?

Despite Canada's high rates of post-secondary attainment, participation in PSE remains low among certain demographic groups in Canada, including students from low-income families, Aboriginal students and students with no history of higher education in their family. This article examines how Canada could raise these groups' post-secondary participation.

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Employer investment in workplace learning

A new report from the Work and Learning Knowledge Centre looks at the conclusions of a series of regional roundtables that investigated ways to improve employer investment in training in Canada. These sessions, held throughout 2007 and 2008, brought together senior leaders from business, labour, government and education to discuss current challenges in the workplace that impede training and skills development.

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Lessons in Learning: The rural–urban gap in education

In 2004–2005, the rural dropout rate was almost double the urban dropout rate in Canada. This Lessons in Learning from March 2006 looks beyond the numbers to identify how best to close Canada’s rural–urban education gap.

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More CCL News

Reminders

• Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change, a five-day training course, co-sponsored by CCL and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is designed for individuals who want to understand the progress of their societies and promote evidence-informed debate and policy-making, in Ottawa, May 11–15, 2009. Limited spaces still available for qualified candidates
• Aboriginal communities, learning organizations and experts are invited to provide comments on the First Nations, Métis or Inuit holistic lifelong learning models by visiting the ‘Feedback’ webpage for the interactive model(s) you wish to address, by April 30, 2009
• CCL's Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre will sponsor and contribute to the Manitoba Aboriginal Education Research Forum—Shawane Dagosiwin in Winnipeg, MB, May 13–15, 2009
• Linking Communities / Overcoming Barriers, the 4th annual national symposium of CCL's Adult Learning Knowledge Centre, is being held from June 8–10, 2009, in Montreal, Quebec  
• New events have been added to CCL’s Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC) 2009 Speakers program, an initiative designed to bring innovative and informed speakers to address the general public about a wide range of adult learning issues. The AdLKC is still accepting new applications for this program