In the News Archives - 2008

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December 2008

Uganda: Iceland Stops Funding Projects
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/19/665687

October 2008

Pakistan: New Literacy Programs
http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56898&Itemid=2

September 2008

New Zealand: Poor Results in Financial Literacy Survey
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/306879

May 2008

Iran: Improving Adult Literacy Rates
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=168397

Philippines: Army Programs Fight Illiteracy
http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&r=&y=&mo=&fi=p080510.htm&no=03

Sierra Leone: Adult Literacy Programs
http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20058482.shtml

New Zealand: Research on Adult Literacy Standards
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10511854

UK: National Learning At Work Day
http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/9433/SfL+endorses+Learning+at+Work+Day.html

April 2008

Australia: Illiteracy Blamed for Shortage of Skills
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23578497-5006301,00.html

Canada: Building Community Literacy From the Ground Up
http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=5da7c816-a623-4a06-90ae-fa5c9e1ceac0

Canada: Inuktitut Literacy Via Storyteling
http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/apr28_08ec.html

Canada: Cost of Poor Numeracy, Writing Skills to Business
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=13c1d1c9-4a6a-4d9c-b6a9-41f684e1ce28

Pakistan: Literacy Rate at 50%
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=14194

March 2008

Isreal: Budget cuts threaten literacy program for elderly immigrants
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204214001115&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Philippines: War on Illiteracy More Serious Than War in Iraq
http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&fi=p080315.htm&no=09

United Arab Emirates: UAE Targets Total Literacy
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/March/theuae_March498.xml&section=theuae&col=

UK: Quick Reads (Novel for Adult Literacy Students) A Success
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3671884/Literary-Life.html

Liberia: Chinese Women Support Women’s Literacy in Liberia
http://allafrica.com/stories/200803280850.html

India: Adult Literacy Success Story
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Delhi/Maa_ho_gai_pass/articleshow/2903082.cms

February 22, 2008

Australia: Call to Lift Health Literacy
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23263822-5003426,00.html

Europe: OECD Conference on Adult Illiteracy
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2257742,00.html

February 15, 2008

Canada: Literacy in Northwest Territories
http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/feb1_08lit.html

India: Literacy Rates
http://newspostindia.com/report-34857

Pakistan: New Adult Literacy Centers
http://www.uniquepakistan.com/news/general/400-adult-literacy-centres-to-be-set-up-in-attock-in-pakistan-20080209.html

South Africa: New Mass Literacy Campaign
http://allafrica.com/stories/200802080305.html

January 26, 2008

Canada: Adult Literacy survey's methodology faulted
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/comment/story.html?id=bf13ecf4-2214-4851-a68a-2c3eac61e1a4&p=1

England: Six Book Reading Challenge
http://www.thestar.co.uk/doncaster/Sixbook-reading-challenge-for-adults.3689544.jp

January 15, 2008

Malawi: Japan Helps Build Literacy Program in Prison
http://www.dailytimes.bppmw.com/article.asp?ArticleID=7936

Canada: New statistics about adult literacy in Canada
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2008/10/c7896.html