Essential Skills In Action:
Contributing to Canada's Workforce

May 16th and 17th, 2005
Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

SkillPlan and the Essential Skills Capacity Building project partners are pleased to present a national practitioner's conference on Essential Skills.

Click here to print the Essential Skills In Action Conference information flyer (in pdf format)

Essential Skills In Action brings practitioners together to compare practices, share ideas, and network.

Conference Program (final)

Registration

Accommodation

Première Presentation of the ALL Results - Lunch with Scott Murray

Essential Connections

Registration

Payment Options:

If registering by mail, please send your completed registration form and cheque payable to SkillPlan.

If registering online we can accept debit or credit card payment using PayPal in addition to cheques.

To register please fill the online form, or print our mail-in registration form. To view and print the mail-in form you will need Acrobat Reader.

Accommodations
Our conference venue is the Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel, Two Lombard Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Please call the global reservations centre at (888) 974-7666 and quote the conference title to receive the group rate, or contact the Fairmont Winnipeg directly at (204) 957-1350, fax (204) 949-1486. Or to reserve your room online, Click Here to go to the Fairmont online booking system. To obtain the conference rate, please make your reservation no later than April 15, 2005.
 

Première Presentation of the ALL Results – Lunch with Scott Murray

Be the first to hear the findings of Learning a Living: First results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey, presented by Scott Murray, Deputy Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics in Montreal.

The ALL survey updates and refines the data provided by the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) published in the 1990's. The new findings strengthen the case for investments in Essential Skills to release the enormous potential of Canada's workers.


Lunch with Scott Murray
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Fairmont Winnipeg Hotel, Midway Ballroom

Tickets: $30 via PayPal Note: lunch is included in the conference fee for delegates attending Essential Skills In Action. Tickets also available at the door for $35.

T. Scott Murray is the newly appointed Deputy Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organizations Institute for Statistics in Montreal. He is responsible for the UIS's student and adult skill assessment program. Prior to his appointment he spent 32 years at Statistics Canada, most recently as the Director General responsible for institiutions and social statistics. He is also currently the international study director of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) and the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL), the world's only comparative assessments of adult skills.

Essential Connections
For more information about Essential Skills, please visit the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Essential Skills website, http://www15.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/.

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