Please pass along the following information to your graduate students.   Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop September 13, 14, 20, 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 […]

Please share the below information with your new and current graduate students.  In addition, if you are planning orientation events within your own programs and departments and think information on the Graduate Pathways to Success Program would be helpful please feel free to include the attached handout. I’m also happy to come and meet with […]

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I am looking for a research assistant  for work 10 hours per week this year and possibly longer, to examine VSB policy and Ministry policies  as part of a project with an international team in five cities (Chicago, London, Vancouver, Toronto, Dallas). If you are interested and feel that you have the relevant experience and skills, please submit […]

The Chinese University of Hong Kong   Department/Unit Department of Curriculum and Instruction Position Professors / Associate Professors / Assistant Professors Reference Number 1415/030(737)/2 Closing Date (mm dd,yyyy) September 1, 2014 Post Specification The Department of Curriculum and Instruction, one of four departments in the Faculty of Education, is a dynamic centre in the Asia-Pacific […]

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Date:            Wednesday, July 30th 2014 Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107 Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Title:             Digital Ethnography as a New Trend of Ethnographic Studies in Education in Brazil   Speaker:       Dr. Carmen de Mattos, Associate Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   Abstract: Digital Technology and Ethnographic Research are subjects that reflect the demands of education in the […]

LLED  441 an online course on Children’s Literature K-12  is an opportunity to study children’s literature as a resource for developing multiliteracies across the curriculum. The multimodal forms of literature offer content and inspiration for transformative activities and reflective thinking that serve students literacy and literary development needs. Assignments include multimodal responses to key issues such […]

GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT (GAA) IN THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH The OGPR is looking to hire a Faculty of Education graduate student who can provide consultation to peers on navigating the web forms for the upcoming SSHRC graduate fellowship and scholarship competition. Job Title: Faculty of Education SSHRC GAA Duration: 3 weeks (September […]

New Graduate Student Orientation, hosted by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, International Student Development, and the Graduate Student Society (GSS), is quickly approaching.  All incoming graduate students have been invited.  Events include: *        Wednesday, August 27: International Student Welcome – an afternoon session designed to help international students make the most of their UBC experience *        Thursday, August 28: […]

William Rea Fellowship in Television Award amount: $500 to $2,100 Deadline: Friday, 1 August, 2014   The fellowship is open to a University of British Columbia graduate student of either sex, who shows the greatest aptitude in terms of scholarship and extracurricular activity for a career in television through drama, music, writing, photography, engineering, or […]

The UBC Faculty of Education presents the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series:   Public Lecture: Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up 1:00PM, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310   Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China   […]

Please Note this is a course offered by the University of Victoria To Graduate Students and Graduate Advisors:   Based on the number of students who expressed interest in EDCI 591, I am pleased to announce that EDCI 591: Ecology, Pedagogy, and Practice is now open for registration. You can find the course through www.uvic.ca/timetable. The Course Registration […]

Are you a Faculty of Education graduate student applying for a SSHRC/ CIHR/ NSERC/ Affiliated Fellowship this year? If so, please join us in an Information Panel for Education Graduate Students!   Find out answers to the following questions—and more:   What makes an excellent program of study description as part of your proposal? What […]

Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to an open session of the African Storybook Summit, to take place in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC, on Thursday, June 26, 2014.  The event, co-sponsored by the Wall Institute, will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am in the DLC (Ponderosa F, Room 103). UBC President […]