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Learning Link: April 15, 2009

CCL update

CCL’s original five-year agreement with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has been extended an additional year, to March 31, 2010, without additional funding. In order to continue its core activities of research, and monitoring and reporting on the state of learning in Canada, CCL is streamlining its operations. CCL remains in active discussions with HRSDC regarding a future funding agreement beyond March 2010. More on CCL's restructuring » 

Lessons in Learning—A barrier to learning: Mental health disorders among Canadian youth

Young people’s mental health represents a significant educational issue because of its impact on learning and because of the role that schools can play in promoting and maintaining the mental health of young people. This article looks at strategies that schools can implement to prevent and detect mental health disorders among young people. Go to article » 

OECD conference: Spaces still available

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in collaboration with CCL is offering Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change, a five-day training course that will focus on the importance of statistics and democratic decision-making, measures of progress that go “beyond GDP”, tools to transform statistics into knowledge and evidence, civic engagement and policy-making. This event will take place in Ottawa, May 11–15, 2009. Spaces are still available. More on the event »

Lessons in Learning: Do students entering university have the basic writing and math skills they need?

Many people, including university professors, worry that incoming university students do not have the skills of previous generations. This article, first published in October 2005, examines the level of preparedness of first-year students in university.

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More CCL news

• CCL's Health and Learning Knowledge Centre is co-sponsoring Health, Learning & Social Development: A National Conference & Symposia in Gatineau, Quebec, May 19–22, 2009

Reminders

• 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  

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