CONCLUSION
All these reports point to the need for Adult Basic Education
programs, the social and economic costs of inadequate education, and the links
between illiteracy and poverty, unemployment, racism and crime. Yet the federal
government is with- drawing support for Adult Basic Education, and giving it a
low priority in the Canadian Jobs Strategy.
A united Federal/Provincial effort is needed to provide Adult
Basic Education to all who need it.
ENDNOTE
- Audrey Thomas, Adult Illiteracy in Canada, Canadian
Commission for UNESCO, Ottawa 1983
- Canadian Association for Adult Education, Educationally
Disadvantaged Adults: A Profile; Toronto 1985
- Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Education, B.C
Post Secondary Enrolment Statistics, 1967 / 77, 1982 / 83
- Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Annual
Statistical Bulletin
- John Dennison and Paul Gallagher, Canada's Community
Colleges - A Critical Analysis ; U.B.C. Press, Vancouver 1986, p. 158
- C.E.I.C. Annual Statistical Bulletin
- Federal Parliamentary Task Force (Allmand Task Force), Work for Tomorrow: Employment
Opportunities in the 80's, Ottawa 1982
- Canadian Association for Adult Education, From the Adults
Point of View; Toronto 1982
- National Advisory Panel on Skill Development Leave,
Learning for Life; Ottawa 1984. Page 14
- Audrey Thomas, Op. cit, page 109
Susan Witter is the Associate Dean, Continuing and
Developmental Education, at Fraser Valley College in Abbotsford, British
Columbia.
Graphic Gail Duesterbech Courtesy
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