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Major New Zealand companies have agreed to double their on-job training hours and to publicly disclose their investment in training. Currently 14 companies are party to the Aotearoa New Zealand Skills Pledge.

Adult Literacy Education (ALE) is a new online, peer-reviewed, themed research journal published by ProLiteracy twice a year. 

Positive communication – communication that is based on respect and builds trust and collaboration – is the cornerstone of creating a mentally healthy workplace.

Many OECD countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according to a new OECD report.

Twenty Cargill Enterprises workers recently graduated from the second ''Cargill Academy'' course. Here's a video montage from the graduation ceremony.

The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to conduct an inquiry into how New Zealand can maximise the opportunities and manage the risks of disruptive technological change and its impact on the future of work and the workforce.

This Western Institute of Technology project, co-funded by Ako Aotearoa, explores the numeracy of students through assessment data analysis.
The project was carried out by Gary Sharpe and Hannah Hughson, and aimed to:

A decision by the Department of Corrections to have Primary ITO training resources printed on buff-patterned paper will benefit prisoners affected by dyslexia and Irlen's syndrome.

Safeguard, a New Zealand publication on workplace health and safety, recently featured an article on the connection between literacy and numeracy and health and safety. The article was written by Mike Styles, Primary ITO's national literacy and numeracy specialist.

Annette van Lameon, from the ALNACC team at Ako Aotearoa, has shared this very interesting article, in which Ulrike Hanemann examines the application of the UN's fourth Sustainable Development Goal which is about ensuring 'inclusive and equitable quality education' and promoting