ORIENTATION is this week. Please remind your incoming graduate students of New Graduate Student Orientation.  The complete schedule is available at http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/january-2014/ Thursday, Jan 9th: Main orientation for all new graduate students (Graduate Student Resources, How to be Successful and Financial information) (Register for January 9th’s event at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2e67 ) Jan 10th: Graduate Student Society […]

This message is being sent to notify that the deadline for submissions to the “Queer U” Academic conference has been extended to January 15th. We are currently accepting abstracts from graduate students, established scholars and strong undergraduates. If you have not already submitted your abstracts that you may have been working on, now is the time to do so!

The EDCP Peer Advisors have many exciting things planned for the month of January. Enlarge the image to check out the calendar.

Date:            Friday, Jan 10th 2014 Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107 Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Title:             Socially Responsible Approaches to Global Education Initiatives – First, Do No Harm Speaker:       Dr. Shafik Dharamsi, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC Abstract: Participation in global education and international engagement initiatives can provide students the […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is a reminder of the 2013 – 2014 Killam Faculty Teaching Prize.  Nomination letters must reach the Department Heads by January 10, 2014. Killam Faculty Teaching Prize 2013 – 2014 The Faculty of Education has a long history of interest in good teaching. To emphasize the importance of exceptional teaching the Faculty of Education […]

Dear Members,Members are invited to consider offering a general graduate student professional development session for the CCGSE/CCÉDÉ during the 2014 CSSE Conference (http://brocku.ca/congress2014/). Topics for these sessions might focus on, but are not limited to: Grant Writing for Graduate Students; Job Search for Graduate Students; Mentorship and the Graduate Student, and/or Publishing for Graduate Students. […]