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 Welcome to the first issue of The TOWES Times, a newsletter for Essential Skills assessment and training.
We’ve wanted to develop an online newsletter for a long time, and after many different mockups, we are finally ready to distribute our very first version. We call it The TOWES Times and we hope that you will find it worth a read. Our goal is to provide information about our current activities and those undertaken by our partners across Canada. We hope that you will enjoy it. Give us some feedback and feel free to send it to others. Eventually, we hope to be able to publish The TOWES Times on a quarterly basis.
Conrad Murphy, Director of TOWES
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TOWES awarded new federal contract to assist in foreign credentialing
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada approved funding in December 2006 for BVC’s TOWES to develop an online Essential Skills curriculum that will assist immigrants with professional-level credentials improve their employment prospects and earnings potential. Read more...
TOWES moves into BC high schools
Preparing for work in the trades just became a little easier for high school students in British Columbia thanks to a new pilot project with TOWES and British Columbia’s Industry Training Authority and Ministry of Education. Read more...
TOWES becomes a learning component for
all
BVC students
Bow Valley College is the first college in Canada to begin graduating all of its career students with Canada’s Essential Credential, the TOWES test.
With a commitment to delivering work-ready graduates, Bow Valley College included TOWES testing into its College Success 101 program this Fall. Read more...
TOWES lands international contract with
aerospace company
After working with Standard Aerospace for the past five years, the Winnipeg-based company has signed on with TOWES to use its testing as an integral component of its employee recruitment program. Read more...
Do you know the impact of essential skills?
Impact on the safety of drivers in the trucking industry: Drivers with Level 1 reading skills are 176 per cent more likely to be involved in a workplace incident such as an accident or a spill than drivers with a Levels 3 to 5.
Source: Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council
Bow Valley College shares results of internal applied research studies using TOWES
BVC has conducted substantive research into the use of TOWES in our own career programs. A variety of different predictive studies were conducted and the results of the research are compelling. Although TOWES was originally developed for the needs of the workplace, the research presents ample evidence for its utility in college training programs. Read more...
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