Funding for literacy programs
Posted Feb 12, 2010 05:10:53 PM.
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You can’t get a job as a forklift operator if you can’t read the training manual.
That’s the thinking behind almost $13.5 million in funding for 35 literacy and numeracy programs across the province, meant to keep people in their jobs, or help them get better ones.
Three local programs will share roughly $750,000 of that: the Conestoga Career Centre; the Project READ Literacy Network Waterloo-Wellington; and The Literacy Group of Waterloo Region, which will work with employees at the Montreal Woolen’s plant in Cambridge to upgrade computer skills.
Montreal Woolen’s HR manager, Melanie Alexander, says it’s better from a business point of view to make sure the great workers they already have are prepared for new technologies, rather than hire new people.
Local MPP and Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, John Milloy, made the announcement this morning of how the previously-announced funding dollars will be applied.
