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 Carey, 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.

We are gearing up for an exciting announcement this afternoon at Bow Valley College.  Information about some of our upcoming Essential Skills initiatives and new projects is about to be dropped, with a visit from Calgary Central MP Lee Richardson.

Bow Valley College will be web casting the event so tune in at1:00pm (MST) to: http://webcast.bowvalleycollegeweb.com/

Stay tuned to the TOWES Times for more information and be sure to follow our tweets for up to the minute updates!

Training stuck in neutral?

Switch gears with NO COST Workplace Essential Skills consulting.

Until June 1st, 2010 the TOWES Department at Bow Valley College is offering local area employers up to 28 days of no cost Essential Skills consulting services for their staff through the Essential Skills Workplace Services (ESWS) project funded by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC).

Essential Skills are the basic or foundational skills that people use at work and in daily life.  Some of the nine Essential Skills are:

• Reading text                         • Numeracy

• Using documents                 • Oral communication

Essential Skills are used in some way in every occupation. Adequate levels of Essential Skills enable workers to learn new technical skills, adapt to workplace change or new processes and lead to increased safety and productivity in the workplace.

Let the TOWES department at Bow Valley College use its expertise in Essential Skills to help your business complete a customized Essential Skills Integration through services such as awareness sessions, needs assessment and analysis, training action planning , HR or Leadership consultations and more.

Contact the TOWES department today at 403-410-3200 or email us at towes@bowvalleycollege.ca for more information.

*This opportunity is only available to employers in Alberta…Not from Alberta? Stay tuned to the TOWES Times for upcoming Essential Skills opportunities.

TOWES has been working in a partnership with the Canadian Virtual College Consortium (CVCC) and Fanshawe College to develop and test our new online training tool: Essential Skills Direct.

The ESD field test is currently underway; for more information on what our partners are contributing to this project check out CVCC’s project website.  Here you will learn about how Fanshawe College is using a new technological and human interactive approach to help vunerable learners to over come learning barriers. Fanshawe’s  ‘Distance Education Assistive Bundle’ will be tested by some of the participating field-test learners as they work their way through ESD.

To learn more about this project, contact us, visit the CVCC website, or follow the TOWES Times for updates.