Foundation Level Workplace Training Programmes

Alkema, Anne

Foundation Level Workplace Training Programmes

dc.contributor.author	Alkema, Anne
dc.coverage.placeName	New Zealand	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Pacific	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-10T16:51:56Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-10T16:51:56Z
dc.date.issued	2020-07-20
dc.description.abstract	This paper outlines the scale of the adult literacy and numeracy issue in New Zealand and describes a policy intervention designed to upskill employees in workplaces to help resolve the issue for them. This is the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy (WLN) Fund, which enables around 7000 employees a year to complete a 25- to 80-hour learning programme, usually in their workplace and during work time. The paper also describes what happens in workplaces while programmes are underway, and the short-term wellbeing, social, and economic outcomes that occur for individual employees. // In this context, literacy and numeracy relates to the way in which adults use skills that involve reading, writing, speaking, listening, and mathematics in everyday life. It also includes digital skills in relation to how adults engage and interact with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These skills are those that individuals need for learning, life, and work in the 21st Century.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.56059/jl4d.v7i2.377
dc.identifier.issn	2311-1550	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3644
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Commonwealth of Learning (COL)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Journal of Learning for Development;vol. 7, no. 2
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	en_US
dc.source.uri	https://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/377	en_US
dc.subject	Adult Education	en_US
dc.subject	Literacy	en_US
dc.subject	Workplace Learning	en_US
dc.subject	Digital Literacy	en_US
dc.title	Foundation Level Workplace Training Programmes	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US