Ahoy! Students, Staff and Faculty of the FoE are invited to join the OGPR for a morning of spooky pirate-themed Trick or Treating! [http://ogpr-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2013/10/Halloween-Slide_LA2.png] When: 10am-12pm, Thursday October 31st Where: OGPR, Room 309 (Third Floor, Center Block), Scarfe Building Costumes are optional, but highly encouraged and will be rewarded with double the loot! — Office […]

Dear Graduate Students, *Stay safe on campus. Look out for one another.* We would love to see you in the coming days. Make our plans your plans – we kinda made them hoping you would.  Today: – Make plans/learn strategies to help you explore Vancouver @ 2pm – Have coffee at the GSS @ 3pm On Thursday, October 31st (copy paste […]

An important note about the CGS Master’s application portal‏. Please note that an important difference between the Tri-Councils’ newly harmonized CGS Master’s applications and the other CGS/Vanier applications that are already online is that there is nobody, at UBC, SSHRC, NSERC, or CIHR, who can or will release an application back to a student once […]

Please let your students know that the application and reference form for the Master’s Affiliated competition are now available on the Graduate Awards website. Affiliated Scholarships link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships Application link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-application-form-applicants-masters-level-funding Reference form link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-reference-form-applicants-masters-level-funding

Please be advised that some graduate students are being emailed by ubc.systems@ubc.ca to say that course registrations, from 2008 primarily, have been cancelled.  This is due to a system error and not due to any compromise of the SISC; no registrations have been cancelled.

TerreWEB is pleased to be working with CTLT on a workshop titled “Sociopolitical Aspects of Communicating Science.”  This workshop will take place October 31st, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, in MCML 350. Registration is required (but free). Registration and event description can be found here. Note: If you register now, you will be put on a […]

OGPR is pleased to announce the call for applications for a number of UBC endowed scholarships and prizes available to our Faculty of Education graduate students who are making the most outstanding contributions in their fields of study.  These awards are for take-up in December 2013.  The awards included in this call are: THE DEAN […]

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http://yte.educ.ubc.ca/oct-21-spirals-of-inquiry Monday, October 21 12:00 – 1:00 pm Scarfe 310 Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser How can a spiral of inquiry approach be useful in teacher education and in ongoing professional learning? How is inquiry shifting practices through networks and through the use of a research-­-informed spiral of inquiry strategy? How are BC […]

CTLT Learning week: Teaching Through Visual Cognition in an Immersive Online Environment Venue: Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Time: October 25, 2013 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm This event is not just a lecture; it is also a discussion forum. The first 30 minutes will feature a short lecture on how to teach […]

The Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness  Visiting Scholars Program Dr. Christian Laville Professor Emeritus, Laval University, Quebec “Historical Thinking for Effective Citizenship: A Perspective on the Concept of Perspective” Monday 4 November 2013, 4:30-6:00 p.m. UBC, Scarfe building, room 310 Nietzsche has written: “A concept is an invention to which nothing exactly corresponds, […]

Dear Graduate students, You are not under the gun. There is no gun. Not in this newsletter anyway. Read it, it will make you feel better. So, there are multiple ways to do Halloween this year, and GSS is written all over at least half. It will be reward for hard work. If you deserve […]