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Jan 17, 2019
Little by little the walls of stigma surrounding mental health are starting to crumble.
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Little by little the walls of stigma surrounding mental health are starting to crumble.
Have you ever watched Storage Wars on TLC? On a recent episode there was a mime helping the storage guys.
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.
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.
The years of retirement should be a golden period. It means, one will be dignified, having a decent lifestyle, enjoying the fruits of their labour, families and friends.
When I first met Mugi last year, she was working at a Chinese supermarket. As we got to know each other, Mugi told me she would soon start evening English classes.
As a person who firmly believes that one should always be striving for personal growth, I share my “aiming for success” story, in the hopes that I can inspire other older adults to keep reaching for their educational goals.
Art gives us an experience like nothing else can. Art exhibitions, whether in a formal gallery or part of an informal event, provide the opportunity for art to be explored.
In Colombia, I was a young woman with a close-knit family, good friends, and a thriving career in psychology because I aspired to help my community that was sadly criminalized by trafficking and violence.
Recently while viewing www.womenofinfluence.ca, I read an article titled “A Changing Workplace: From Corporate Ladders to Corporate Lattices”.
When Saigon fell to the Vietcong, I was only in kindergarten. But soon, school became “re-education”. We swept streets and picked up garbage.
The Workers' Educational Association of Canada (WEA) has been a champion of free, public education for adults since its beginning in 1918.
As the late American journalist, Christopher Morley, once said “There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning”.
In today’s economy, a career in adult education can take many forms. Stella Han, Academic Advisor in the Centre for Adult Education and Community Outreach (CAECO) at Brock University
In the last issue of Learning Curves, an article, which I wrote The new, new economy, described how citizens around the world
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.
The world of work is competitive and further education may give particular candidates the competitive edge and legitimacy needed in their professions.
not easy. Figuring out what to study, what training program to take to get a job -- or a better job -- can be risky.
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.
David Li has found the secret of teaching the complicated and rigorous practice of accounting by breaking it down to a simple and elegant format that is easy to understand.
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.
For several years, I would see Sonia’s welcoming smile behind a local library’s reference desk.
For many people, attending university after high school can be an intimidating task – especially at an institution like the University of Toronto.
Most people will remember November 4, 2008 as an historic moment when Obama was elected president of the United States. But, I will always remember it as the day I decided to go to grad school.
It is exciting to see that the Community Hubs Advisory Group, established by Premier Kathleen Wynne and chaired by Karen Pitre, is currently engaged in consultations across the province.
It’s Monday morning, and another week of work begins. Upstairs I hear my neighbour stirring
On my street lives Aaron Siu whom I met four years ago.
Recent news stories reporting that Toronto public schools are “under-utilized” paint a wildly inaccurate picture
In part one, we learned that eighteen-year old Sarah came from Tehran during the Gulf War to marry forty-year-old Yousef.
One summer, I temporarily rented an apartment where two young women next door welcomed me.
These days when you say that your grandparents rock, you don’t mean in a rocking chair! Baby boomers, many of whom are now seniors, have dramatically changed the face of retirement.
Summer is not a down time for learning. It is just that in the summer, it’s more work to find what’s offered.
According to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives titled Degrees of Uncertainty:
If you are a job seeker, a question you might be asking is ‘how do I fit into a workplace that seems to be resistant instead of accepting?’
Three organizations are working together to support Aboriginal employment: the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO), Toronto Employment & Social Services (TESS), and Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training.
As Canadians, it is important that we devote some time to learning about the First Nations of Canada.
If you have ever wanted to learn a new language, you will soon discover that it takes time and patience just to decipher the pages of online information, let alone to figure out how to register for a class.
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.
elyn recently graduated as a Personal Support Worker from a community college.
ou are an adult who didn’t get a high school diploma, for whatever reason, you probably don’t want to re-enroll in a high school program and work your way through years of classes.
I’m a Torontonian. Having lived in this city for sixty years, I have been witness to many changes here
Returning to school for most people can be a worrying experience at the best of times.
The Toronto District School Board offers Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs at over 30 locations throughout Toronto.
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.
A listing of schools by community in Toronto and the GTA
Camille Rutherford, assistant professor of Education at Brock University, always gives her students a few minutes to settle in before starting class.
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities requires all full time college students to take four to six general education courses
The world of work is getting more competitive with inflated credentials required for positions which once required only a high school diploma, with the disappearance of “good” jobs because of offshoring, technology replacing people and so on.
Have you always dreamed of being an artist? Looking to change careers and get into the arts, but not sure if it’s quite right for you?
The growth of entrepreneurial spirit is an important factor in turning around economic downturns.
For forty years or more our world has become more and more a “global village” because of advances in communications technology
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.
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.