Please note that three Home Economics Education scholars will be visiting the Department for interviews in late January.  The Search Committee encourages faculty members and students to attend their presentations and share your thoughts on the candidates.  Here are the candidates and the dates, times and venue for their presentations and meetings: Roula Hawa Tue, […]

UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #652 January 10, 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 […]

All continuing faculty with a clinical, tenure or grant tenure appointment at the UBC Vancouver Campus are eligible. Graduate programs may nominate one faculty member for consideration for this award. Evaluation Criteria Nominees must have demonstrated sustained excellence in graduate-level teaching, normally for at least five years. The following criteria will be used to evaluate […]

Dear Graduate Students, I would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming FIREtalk: Creativity and Innovation to be held on Wednesday January 29th 4-6 pm. Submit your proposal for a 5 minute presentation by January 15th. http://bit.ly/CreateandInnovate Where do creative and novel ideas come from? Can tools or techniques stimulate creativity and innovation? […]

Every year the Faculty of Education holds a one day book sale to raise proceeds for animal rescue charities in the Lower Mainland, by selling donated books at very reasonable prices to students, staff and faculty. Everybody benefits—especially the animals, who are the most important recipients of our good will. All proceeds go to volunteer […]

Workshop: Learn about getting Canadian residency through the B.C. Provincial Nominee Program Interested in applying for Canadian permanent residency? Government officers from the B.C. Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will speak about current government regulations and application procedures. Learn about the various pathways to immigration through the PNP, the CIC’s […]

A Dialogue with Jan Hare, Professor in Indigenous Education for Teacher Education Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:30 – 6:30 pm First Nations House of Learning (Sty-Wet-Tan Hall) 1985 West Mall RSVP http://tinyurl.com/Jhare-Feb4 The Faculty of Education and Dr. Jan Hare invite members of the community to a dialogue about the vision and plans for the Professorship […]

Explore Public Policy Issues Student Seminar February 1, 2014 | Vancouver, BC Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm  Please join us for a day of fun-filled discussion and inquiry – free of charge. Explore ideas while listening and conversing with leading policy experts and peers. Speakers and topics include: Is China […]

The 8th Walkabout is almost here! Just in time for those of us that put a little weight on over the holidays with just one too many mince-pies and want to take off that added weight before it starts to feel like it belongs. What better way to reset some good eating and activity habits […]

Dear Graduate Students, Warm wishes for a happy and productive new year from all of us at the GSS! We know that you agree or strongly agree that funding/financial issues cause you as a UBC graduate student stress or anxiety on a regular basis. You know and we know that Time to Completion for graduate studies […]

My name is Joash Johannes and I am a doctoral student in the UBC Linguistics Department. As a coordinator of the “Speak Swahili”  (Sema Swahili) I would like to welcome you all to our UBC Swahili classes. Swahili is  currently a Lingua Franca of Africa and is mainly spoken in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Burundi, Madagascar, […]

In this new series, graduate students are invited to converse around a curated selection of documentary films. The first meeting will be Wednesday January 15 at 4:30pm in the Den (Scarfe 6A). Join fellow grad students for a new monthly short documentary film and discussion series. This month’s films are American Juggalo and That B.E.A.T. […]

The Autism and Developmental Disorders Lab at SFU, together with the Laurel Foundation, is co-hosting 3 community events entitled, “ASD & Family Quality of Life Discussion Series.” The 3 themes will be: Families and School, Families and Transitions, and Families and Mental Health. The aim of these events is to facilitate discussion among a range […]

RSVP to INFO@VHEC.ORG On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank receives a diary as a gift. Just weeks later her family enters into hiding in Amsterdam. For more than two years, Anne carefully records her thoughts, feelings, and observations in her now-iconic diary, one of the most widely read books in the world today. Through photos, […]

Dear Students, The note below is a reminder that that the Audio Visual room in Scarfe Room 1 closed on November 12th. You probably know that UBC provides equipment loans to students.  The following two links provide information on how to borrow: ·         Laptops ·         Camcorders and Tripods ·         Camcorder and Projectors ·         LCD Projectors […]