Appendix C
Interview Schedule for Government Participants

1. Please begin by providing a short description of the government department that you currently work (or have worked) in and its relation to literacy?
2. How do you define the word partnership?
3. Please describe your relationship with the NLS Business/ Labour Partnership Program.
4. What are the key factors that you believe have made this government partnership program a success?
5. What projects, activities or events do (did) you engage in that helped to develop the partnership program?
6. Describe any strategies that you use(d) to engage business/labour/practitioners in the partnership program.
7. How does one count those partnership activities that didn’t access NLS funds?
8. Can you think of an incident/experience/story in the partnership that was particularly telling and that you remember clearly?
9. In your opinion, what are the actual accomplishments of the NLS Business/Labour Partnership Program?
10. What are the key factors that you believe break a partnership?
11. How would you describe the decision making process in the partnership?
12. How would you define a funding relationship in a partnership?
13. What are the current issues in partnership development in workplace literacy and essential skills training?
14. What’s the most important lesson you have learned from working with the NLS Business/Labour Partnership Program?