5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW HORIZONS IN EDUCATION INTE 2014 Paris – FRANCE 25-27 June 2014 www.int-e.net

We are pleased to post the Community of Practice Developer position to start mid-January 2014 with UBC’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT). This is a 12-20 hour/week position (adaptable to the successful candidate’s schedule), open to all graduate students at UBC. Please see attached job description for more details. CoP_JobDescription_Jan2014 The posting is open until noon Friday, Jan. […]

Dear Graduate Students, Did you know that Graduate students make up 20% of the student body at UBC, numbering just over 10,000 graduate students at UBC Vancouver alone? There’s a more than 50% chance that you agree or strongly agree that funding/financial issues cause you as a UBC graduate student stress or anxiety on a regular […]

Dear Students, Three HMED search candidates have been shortlisted and they will be coming to UBC for presentations and interviews in late January.  Dates are as follows: Jan 21 (Tues) 8:15 to 3:30 pm and 22 (Wed) 10:00 am to 3:30 pm     Roula Hawa Jan 23 (Thu) 1 – 2 hours in the afternoon and […]

“Education for Revolution,” a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days  and Cultural Logic has just been launched. Works & Days, published by the English Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, explores problems of cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, especially as they are impacted by the global economic crisis (http://www.worksanddays.net). Cultural Logic, which has […]

Mackenzie King Memorial Scholarships Deadline: Monday, 3 February 2014 Amount: $9,000 – $11,000 (subject to change) The Open Scholarship is available to graduates of Canadian universities who pursue graduate study in any discipline, in Canada or elsewhere. One Open Scholarship is awarded each year. The value has recently been approximately $9,000 but is subject to […]

Dear Graduate Students, The OGPR is pleased to announce the availability of the 2013-2014 Faculty of Education Graduate Student Research Grant funding initiative.  The grant is not designed to be a salary grant.  The principal goal of this initiative is to reimburse UBCV Faculty of Education graduate students for the financial costs of conducting research […]

UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #651 December 13, 2013 The Office of Graduate Programs and Research | Faculty of Education | UBC Vancouver   For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971.  Please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash for all new […]

Working the Ruins of Educational Policy: Post-Structuralism for a Complex World Referencing the groundbreaking and continually relevant Working the Ruins: Feminist Poststructural Theory and Methods in Education (1999, St. Pierre & Pillow, Eds.), this Public Lecture/panel discussion will explore the ways in which education policy can be viewed through poststructural policy analysis. Detailed information can […]

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop February 8, 15, 16, 2014.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.  Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day […]

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:30 – 7:30 pm Barber Learning Centre <http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat13D516> Room 182 1961 East Mall Anniversary Lecture by Dr. Joerg Roche, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany Intercultural Language Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Featuring a screening of the CILS Twentieth Anniversary multimedia presentation, and refreshments. Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:00 – 4:30 […]

Established in 1994, CILS is a cross-campus centre for research, outreach, and collaboration on issues broadly connected to language, culture, and education.  CILS is sponsored by the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts, and Continuing Studies. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CILS-20thAnniversaryEvents Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:30 – 7:30 pm Barber Learning Centre  Room 182 1961 East Mall Anniversary Lecture by […]

Dear Graduate Students, Did you take any particularly good pictures around campus while it snowed these last couple of days? Please share them with us on our Facebook Group, Facebook Page or tag us on Twitter @ubcGSS! GSS Social & Recreational Events: – Come to the Last Coffee’ll Fix It for 2013! It’s this Thursday December 12th at the […]

Dear Graduate Students, As part of OGPR’s activities in the frame of the Year of Teacher Education, I am developing a brochure on teacher education and teacher research, and one of the sections I would like to include is a brief summary of any teacher education research projects currently being undertaken by our graduate students. […]

3MT 2014: heat organizer packages are ready.  If you are interested in hosting a heat, please e-mail graduate.pathways@ubc.ca to receive the information package. 3MT coaching sessions have been scheduled for January 21th and February 12th, see http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca/schedule/ .   Please alert your incoming graduate students of New Graduate Student Orientation.  The complete schedule is available […]