The “skills debate” is heating up in Nova Scotia.
Adult learning should be as much a plank of our economy and our democracy as educating children. But the fact that we have to pay for remedial education in the workplace points to a problem in our education system. I take up this issue in my weekly column in The Chronicle Herald and, as chronic concerns about the skills gap in Nova Scotia become acute, I note what literacy advocates have known all along: that our low levels of literacy across the province are a barrier to employment and a real cap on our economic growth.
