Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop early March 9, 10, 16, 2013.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for […]

FIREtalks: Care and Healing Can we only heal individuals or is possible to heal entire cultures? Are scientific and holistic approaches to care and healing necessarily mutually exclusive? Is preventive always better than restorative care? As graduate students, many of us are involved in research concerning care and healing, and we can think about these […]

UBC’s Academic English Support program currently has places open for graduate students. The program offers free, individualized help from English language teaching specialists including a needs analysis, language coaching, classroom and self-access based course and resources.   You may find this UBC Reports article on a recent graduate’s experience of the program helpful.

University Affairs (UA) is an award-winning magazine read by graduate students, faculty and administrators on campuses across Canada. You may not know that as a UBC graduate student you are eligible for a free subscription (10 issues/year). University Affairs publishes news, commentary and in-depth articles on a wide range of Canadian higher education topics. The […]

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is running a student competition for arts-based presentations of still images/works or performance/video pieces of 4 to 10 minutes on the topic of water (“the piece”). In September 2013, the Peter Wall Institute will host a public panel discussion on the need for cross-disciplinary strategies to deal with […]

There are three levels of the scholarships – from the Chinese government, from the Chongqing government and from the President of our university. Please give this information to your students who are interested in studying in China, maybe this will be helpful to them. Graduate students program of Southwest University Mayor scholarship application Southwest university […]

Open to Masters and PhD Applications: The award is offered for a completed scholarly project, thesis, or dissertation in the area of arts research and teaching. The work must have been accepted within two years prior to the year of the conference. Graduates of Canadian universities or Canadians who have studied abroad are eligible for […]

The MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) students are looking for presenters for their annual two-day conference to be held on April 5 and 6 on the UBC campus. MAAPPS Call for Abstracts This year’s theme is ‘People, Place and Policy’. Could you please forward the attached call for abstracts to your faculty and graduate students?  We apologize in […]

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has proposed several changes to student visa policies (which were announced on December 29, 2012. This survey is intended to obtain your thoughts on the proposed changes. UBC and the AMS will be using the results from this survey to guide and form a submission to the Federal Government communicating […]

Investigating Our Practices 2013 16th Annual Conference Saturday, May 11, 2013, 8:30am – 1:30pm Neville Scarfe Building, UBC Please join us for IOP 2013, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers’ Federation.  Practicing teachers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts will convene in the Scarfe Building to share […]

Centre for International Peace and Security Studies Present the 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference, May 6th 2013 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Expanding the Security Landscape: From New Threats to Novel Issues   CIPSS is organizing its 11th Annual Graduate Student Conference entitled, Expanding the Security Landscape: From New Threats to Novel Issues.  This one-day event […]

The UBC Graduate Student Council of Sociology (GSCS) seeks paper proposals for its sixth annual interdisciplinary graduate conference, “Agency, Power, and Structure: Navigating the Social World” taking place May 10-11, 2013 at the University of British Columbia. Please see the attached poster. The conference is an avenue for graduate students from multiple departments and institutions […]

The OGPR is pleased to announce the availability of the 2012-2013 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 projects necessary for […]

The OGPR would like to bring to your attention the following information on a graduate dissertation award competition. Please note that the internal Faculty of Education deadline for submission of applications to the OGPR is 4:00pm, Tuesday, February 12, 2013. The Governor General’s Gold Medal At the May 2013 Congregation ceremony, a gold medal is […]

DEAN’S AWARD FOR STAFF EXCELLENCE FACULTY OF EDUCATION Each year, the Dean extends the Faculty’s appreciation for the valuable contributions of our staff through an award for staff excellence.  This award recognizes excellence in staff service and support within the Faculty. The awardee will have their name entered on the Staff Excellence award plaque and […]