In 1998, Wendy and Eugenia researched Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, to see if a community newspaper for adults going back to school would be useful. In January 1999, Learning Curves was launched This year, 2025 will be our 25th year of publishing Learning Curves.
She told me they are teaching their clients how to use AI to edit an existing resume to focus on a new job application. AI Artificial Intelligence the latest high tech development. Read up on it.
The Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development website is a very useful tool.
The front page article of the Winter 2022 issue of Learning Curves titled “Micro Credentials The Next “Big Thing” in Adult Learning”
Municipal elections are the most complex because you vote for 3 representatives: a Mayor for your city, a Councillor for your ward, and a School Trustee for your ward.
Anne spent the 25 years of her retirement founding the University in the Community program and editing and developing Learning Curves. She also took on being Vice President of the Workers’ Educational Association who founded and developed University in the Community and published Learning Curves.
I ended the article by noting what you find at one institution is often at another, so ask.
Delivering Learning Curves leads me to many a discovery. Recently was this Chart UTSC Library Makerspace, all of this is available to you, posted outside the Library. UTSC is the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus.
In our Fall 2021 issue in this story I will summarize the changes I could see from the priorities recommended by the Report found in a scan of course offerings for the Fall term.
Often as adult learners we are focused on finding a course at a time we can make it, that meets a specific learning need, the micro level. But there are activities going on at a macro level which shape what we are offered at the micro level. Canada- A Learning Nation report describes the work of the Future Skills Advisory Council, an advisory council to the federal Ministry of Employment Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion. This report came out in December 2020 but I just found it scanning the net for what I can’t remember now.
COVID has disrupted our continuing education plans as it has our economy-our job/career plans. We have been in the latest lock down since Christmas Day and when will it let up apparently mid February.
Newcomer students doing LINC classes as these are funded by the federal government who is not cancelling classes if the number of students attending class have dropped due to moving to online instruction due to COVID.
COVID has changed how education both full-time and continuing education are delivered mainly to online learning. But Covid has not led us to be more aware of what adult education contributes as it has to what international students contribute.
Learning outside of the classroom used to be considered an option, now it is to use today’s phrasing the “new normal.”
The Universities, Colleges, and Schools charts in this Mosaic of Adult Education help you find the doors to specific programs at an educational institution.
The chart below is organized by geography and school board, by the type of education offered. Find the right contacts for your area and your interest.
As an apprentice, you get paid as a worker which is good, but the hard part is finding an employer who will also train you.
In the Summer 2019 issue of Learning Curves, I had written about a proposed federal Canada Training Benefit, as described in the March 2019 federal budget.
Educational providers are constantly developing new courses to help us stay up to date.
Zhihai is an ESL student in the first level ESL class at Overland Learning Centre. It is remarkable that he is 91 years old and has been learning English for over two years now.
We all make plans but then life happens.
name is Siddhertha Saha and I am writing this to let all of you know that I have graduated in Accounting and Payroll (Diploma) program from ABC Access Business College
Often we put off calling a university or college as we didn’t finish high school or did poorly or did it in a different country in a different language.
Before we talk about Municipal Elections and Adult Education, let’s look at Municipal elections in general and then the upcoming one in 2018 which is different.
Ah, the kids have been in their new classes for a week. You have caught up on the pile of work that greeted you on your return from holidays.
Educational institutions are constantly developing new courses to help their students stay up to date and often they work in partnership with a professional group or industry.
On the day of his graduation, Friday July 27th, his two lovely daughters, the elder, a student at the University of Toronto...
Summer is a great time to take a course! Although the selection is more limited than in the fall, winter and spring terms, most educational providers offer courses during the summer months.
What do we call ourselves - Boomers, Zoomers, seniors, retirees, older adults…?
This is a starting point for navigating the adult education system, our Adult Education 101.
When we think of schools, we think of children’s education but they are a key provider of adult education.
Hundreds of mature students 20 years of age and over, will be heading back to school this fall through the University of Toronto’s Millie Rotman Shime Academic Bridging Program.
Often adult students had dropped out of high school, though they do this less than they used to, and later they often decide to go back to school. But there has been few community accessible learning information services to help adults go back. So often they start back based on what a friend advises or at an educational program they know in their area or at a program they have seen an ad for.
On May 23, 2015, I attended CAECO’s annual Facilitators’ Day. The program, housed in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, offers in class, on site, and online programming to a variety of learners.
Don’t let yourself get caught in the all-too familiar trap of waiting until your children have gone back to school before thinking about your own continuing education.
Adults thinking of going back to school, often have the following start dates in mind: fall term: September, winter term: January, spring term: May. This picture limits your choices.
Summer holiday mode is over, you have turned your mind to work mode, the kids are settled in school and you have time to think about taking a course yourself, only to find the Fall term has already started at many places.
Summer is not a down time for learning. It is just that in the summer, it’s more work to find what’s offered.
Anne has been the Editor of Learning Curves for most of its 16 years.
In February 2003, the Toronto District School Board announced the discontinuation of General Interest courses. Clearly, they did not expect learners to organize and fight back, but fight back they did.
Mentoring for Change is a Skills for Change program that matches newcomer professionals with a Canadian peer.
On October 24th I attended the Annual General Meeting of the Toronto Workforce Innovation Group
The 2013 fall issue of Learning Curves is our 15th back to school issue and we are congratulating ourselves.
Access Business College has moved to just north of Finch on Yonge Street.
As Canadians, it is important that we devote some time to learning about the First Nations of Canada.
June is Seniors’ month and the first of the baby boomers are becoming seniors.
Recently, Learning Curves spoke with Sonia Nerses at Access Business College which offers a diploma program in Property Administration.
Ontario has never had a Premier with such deep commitment to adult learning. Consider the following about Kathleen:
In the Winter 2012 issue, Learning Curves did a feature article on the GED General Education Development Test which, if you pass, earns you a high school equivalency certificate.
Because of the difficulty of drilling down into online calendars for schedules, Learning Curves has just picked one course area to survey this year: computers.
Of the three terms, the spring term has the most varied start dates. Course starts go from mid April to mid May, unlike the fall term where most start in the first week of September and the winter term in the first week of January.
Just as there are in-class courses to attend in June, July, and August, there are distance education courses too.
Schools, colleges and universities have responded in part to declining enrolment by marketing to international students
Toronto District School Board Adult Day Schools offer two programs for learners who want to earn high school credits or an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
This article focuses on OSLT programs and lesser known entry programs like the General Arts and Science programs at the colleges.
With the aging of Canada’s baby boomers, it is a sure thing that health care work is going to increase.
Toronto District School Board Adult Day Schools offer two programs for learners who want to earn high school credits or an Ontario Secondary School Diploma
A listing of schools by community in Toronto and the GTA
A listing of learning institutions from School boards, Colleges and Universities throughout the GTA.
Just as there are in-class courses to attend in the summer, there are DE (distance education) courses too.
On May 5, 2011, I attended a joint conference of the National Association of Career Colleges and their provincial counterpart the Ontario Association for Career Colleges in Niagara Falls.
Summer is a great time to take a course! Although the selection is more limited than in the fall, winter and spring terms, most educational providers offer courses during the summer months.
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities requires all full time college students to take four to six general education courses
In the February-March issue of Learning Curves, I did a feature article on Learning through a Professional Association, such as the Canadian Payroll Association.
Just recently China surpassed Japan as the second largest economy in the world, and so many of us are wondering how to work with China.
Statistics Canada recently released its quarterly labour force survey results. This labour force survey showed major growth in five particular sectors: retail and wholesale trade, business and support services, health care and social assistance, personal care business as well as construction.
June is Seniors’ Month and an appropriate time for Learning Curves to look at the learning needs of seniors
For this issue of Learning Curves, which looks at the educational advantages of professional associations, we interviewed a young woman, Sarah M., who has the CGA designation also known as a certificate.
As part of our ongoing profiling of careers and the people who work in them, we interviewed Gerard N. who works for a global engineering company based in Oslo, Norway.
Internationally trained lawyers have one of the most challenging professions in which to re-certify when moving from one country to another.
Many of you newcomers who were doctors, dentists, nurses etc. in your homelands find recertifying in Canada too costly and too lengthy.
This is the third in a series of articles on professional associations which internationally trained professionals may join in order
An easy way for newcomers to find Canadian-born professionals who work in the same field is to go to the nearest public library and ask for the Associations Canada Directory.