Are you in the Calgary area?

Watch for a special offer from TOWES in your local newspapers tomorrow (Thursday March 25^th). We are part of an exciting initiative, Essential Skills Workplace Services (ESWS);  a project that allows us to offer local area employers up to 28 days of no cost Essential Skills consulting services for their staff.

Look for the ad in the following local publications:

• Calgary Herald
• Calgary Sun
• 24 Hours
• Metro

If you are interested in this opportunity please contact us.

At TOWES, we sell most of our products through a Distributor network that spans across Canada.

Our distributors are always doing good work in the area of Essential Skills. Today we want to highlight the work of our Manitoba distributor, Workplace Education Manitoba.

WEM has recently created an excellent video series: Essential Skills – perspective, decision-making and the way forward. Check it out, and while you are there, take a couple minutes to complete a short on-line survey that asks: Who is incorporating workplace Essential Skills in their workplace and how; who isn’t and why; and what is still needed?

Tell us what do you think of WEM’s video series in the comments.

Did you know that Continuous Learning is one of the 9 Essential Skills?

This week, the entire TOWES team participated in Continuous Learning, as we attended the Bow Valley College PD day.

The theme of this year’s PD Day was: “Sustainability – Living and Learning Beyond Tomorrow. The day kicked off with an engaging key note address by Ken Steele of Academica Group Inc. on Emerging Trends and Sustainability in the World of Post Secondary Education.

Have you checked out Academica’s “Top Ten”?

Not only were we busy learning about different initiatives going on at BVC and participating in sessions to learn new ideas and skills we can apply in our work, some of our team participated by making presentations, including a presentation on teaching Essential Skills in Namibia and Enhancing Sustainability through Customer Service.
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We are excited to share that the funding for two of our upcoming projects was announced this afternoon at a Federal Funding Announcement event hosted by Bow Valley College.

Lee Richardson, MP Calgary Central, and Sharon Carry, President and CEO,  announced that BVC will receive over $1.6 million for three projects through the Career Focus Program and the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.

The three projects that will receive this funding are:

Connection to the Workplace, Read to Succeed (RtS) and a Market Segmentation View of the Aboriginal Literacy Market (ALM). The RtS and ALM projects will be managed and developed by us, and our colleagues at Connexion Carriere will be handling the Connection to the Workplace project.

For more information view the Press Release or  watch the event on Webcast.

We will be posting more details about these projects soon, but if you have any questions please contact us.