In-house Literacy, Language and Numeracy (LLN) Initiatives in New Zealand Workplaces
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Summary
Work has been underway in New Zealand to improve the literacy, language and numeracy (LLN) skills of the workforce. This report summarises the findings of a review into the level of literacy, language and numeracy in employer-funded training in workplaces in New Zealand in 2008.
The purpose of this review was to find out more about the types of LLN training employers were undertaking, without the support of government funding. The review includes two small surveys which show that very little is happening in companies. What is happening includes formal LLN teaching programmes, encouraging company tutors to undertake qualifications in adult literacy, and revisions of company documents to make them more accessible for staff.
A range of themes emerges from the data. These included the need to relate LLN to wider business strategies; the lack of awareness about the availability of government funding or associated difficulties in applying for it; the tensions between delivering LLN training in-house or accessing outside provision; and the tensions between business outcomes and education outcomes where it is perceived that companies want outcomes for the business and educators want LLN outcomes.
Author: Catherine Kell, Shona Guy and Sharon Harvey
All publications in subject category: Education & Training
- A synthesis of foundation learning evaluation and research in New Zealand since 2003
- An Evaluation of Health and Safety Management Practices in the Hairdressing Industry
- Demand-side factors in adult foundation learning programmes - A review of international literature
- Does workplace-based industry training improve earnings?
- Employer-funded education and training: who receives it?
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Literature review
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Research report
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Summary
- Evolving educational expectations for New Zealand youth: Evidence from the Christchurch Health and Development Study
- Formative evaluation of ITO embedded literacy and numeracy projects
- International students: Studying and staying on in New Zealand
- Modern apprentices’ literacy learning: A formative evaluation
- New Zealand Report on Further Education and Training of the Labour Force
- Participation in post-compulsory education and training in New Zealand
- Returns to post-school qualifications: New evidence based on the HLFS Income Supplement (1997-2002)
- School children in paid employment – a summary of research findings
- The effects of in-school and in-tertiary employment on academic achievement and labour market transitions: Evidence from the Christchurch Health and Development Study
- The labour market returns to industry training
- The Transfer of Literacy, Language and Numeracy Skills from Learning Programmes to the Workplace
- The Workplace Literacy Fund
- To Make or Buy (Skills): An analysis of training decisions using microdata
- Upskilling through foundation skills - A literature review
- Workers with low literacy or numeracy skills: characteristics, jobs and education and training patterns.
All publications in subject category: Labour productivity
- A report card on the New Zealand labour market
- Cyclical earnings variation and the composition of employment
- Potential Output: Concepts and Measurement
- The business case for firm-level work-life balance policies: a review of the literature
- The Measurement of Labour Productivity using the Annual Enterprise Survey and LEED: Results of a data integration and data quality assessment
- The Measurement of Productivity in New Zealand: An Introduction
- The Skills-Productivity Nexus : Connecting Industry Training and Business Performance
- Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity
- Why Workplaces Matter
- Worker-Firm Heterogeneity and Matching: An analysis using worker and firm fixed effects estimated from LEED
- Workplace Reform and the Quality of Working Life: A Tale of Three Workplaces
All publications in subject category: Skills / human capital
- A Changing Landscape: Recruitment Challenges Following the Canterbury Earthquakes
- An overview of New Zealand and international research on the future of work.
- Aspirations of rurally disadvantaged Maori youth for their transition from secondary school to further education or training and work
- Changing skills for a Changing World, Recommendations for Adult Literacy policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Demand-side factors in adult foundation learning programmes - A review of international literature
- Employer-funded education and training: who receives it?
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Literature review
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Research report
- Engaging young adults in LLN skill development: Summary
- Human Capability - A framework for analysis
- Integrating Employment, Skills and Economic Development: New Zealand
- International Workforce Literacy Review: Australia
- International Workforce Literacy Review: Canada
- International Workforce Literacy Review: England
- International Workforce Literacy Review: Ireland
- International Workforce Literacy Review: United States
- Labour Market Returns to Further Education for Working Adults
- Modern apprentices’ literacy learning: A formative evaluation
- New Zealand''s Labour Market from 1991 - 2001: Evidence of Upskilling?
- NZ Accommodation Providers: Impact of Technology on Labour
- Occupational and Skill Forecasting: A Survey of Overseas Approaches with Applications for New Zealand
- The Skills-Productivity Nexus : Connecting Industry Training and Business Performance
- The Transfer of Literacy, Language and Numeracy Skills from Learning Programmes to the Workplace
- The Transfer of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy Skills from Learning Programmes into the Workplace: Literature review
- Upskilling Partnership Programme: Evaluation report
- Upskilling through foundation skills - A literature review
- Workers with low literacy or numeracy skills: characteristics, jobs and education and training patterns.
