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The EEO Trust Diversity Awards Entry Assistance workshop will be held on Thursday 14 April.

A delegation from Singapore, including staff from the Institute of Adult Learning and members of the Adult Educator Professionalisation Scheme, visited Pacific Homecare, winner of the 2013 Skills Highway Award, to explore effective learning and assessment practices used in the Pacific Pathwa

For the 2015/2016 financial year, 1800 workplace literacy places have been allocated to date for employer-led programmes. TEC has advised that there are a further 250-300 places available for programmes with delivery planned by June 30, 2016.

The EEO Trust are now accepting entries for their 19th Annual Diversity Awards, which includes the prestigious Skills Highway Award. This award celebrates organisations that recognise the importance of numeracy and literacy in adding value to the workforce and who develop initiatives to assi

The importance of workforce literacy in boosting productivity, profitability and supporting economic growth has resulted in a consortium of six North Otago employers successfully applying for Workplace Literacy funding. Literacy North Otago has been contracted to deliver a programme to impro

Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand’s largest meat export processor with a workforce of approximately 7000 at the peak of the season. The Dargaville site is the company’s upper Northland processing site, with a workforce of around 300, many of whom are Maori and Pasifika.

In a recent article published in HRM New Zealand, Alison Sutton, from COMET Auckland, emphasises the difference that literacy training at work can make.

In a new report, ‘Tackling Foundation Skills in the Workforce’, the Australian Industry Group highlights the impact that low levels of workforce literacy and numeracy skills are having on the Australian workforce, with 93% of surveyed employers identifying this as negatively