Two GRA positions: 1 Science One Program: Science One Program GRA 2 CTLT and VP office: GRA_TOR-FINAL   The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is looking for a GAA. Development of Self Paced Learning Modules for Practice Educators in PharmacyOffice of Experiential Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical SciencesJob title: curriculum development assistantPay rate: $23.89 to $28.47 /hr, depending on experienceHours per […]

Monday, June 16th 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Improve Your Academic Writing with a Peer Support Group and Group Writing Blocks (note that group writing blocks will occur daily from 10 – 12 throughout writing week and will provide space and time for students to write and to give and receive feedback from peers, facilitated by […]

Registration is now open for the following Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS) sessions: GPS/UBC Life & Career Centre Workshop: Breaking Patterns of Procrastination Thursday, June 5, 2014, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm For a session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11537-gpsubc-life-career-centre-workshop-breaking-patterns-procrastination To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3484   Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS will be hosting a graduate student […]

Public Lecture: A Humanizing Pedagogy: Getting Beneath the Rhetoric in a South African Post-Conflict University Context 12:00PM, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310   Dr. Carol Rodgers, Associate Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA   Bio: Dr. Carol Rodgers is associate professor of education in the Department of […]

The PDCE has a summer student job opportunity and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to make the attached job description available to your networks, if you think it is appropriate?   The job is to support the UBC Vancouver International Summer Program, which is a month-long summer exchange program aimed at visiting students from […]

Alternative notions of schooling in Australia: The story of engaging and reflecting on relational ways of supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students   Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.   UBC First Nations Longhouse, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall (1985 West Mall), UBC Point Grey Campus, Vancouver, BC   In Australia, ‘Indigenous Education’ policy […]

ear UBC Faculty of Education community,   The UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to announce this summer’s series of courses and public presentations by scholars from the international education community.   Our visiting Noted Summer Scholars for 2014 are: Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona […]

Registration is now open for next week’s Graduate Pathways to Success (GPS)/CSI&C Resume Clinic. Thursday, May 29, 2014 – 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/11523-gpscsic-event-resume-clinic To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g3483   Several new workshops including the writing week series, procrastination and from resume to online profile have been posted athttps://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .

PhD students… as you are planning your schedules for the upcoming year, I thought you might be interested in the following special topics course in Term 2.If you have questions, please contact me.EPSE 681B 074              NARRATIVE INQUIRYThe story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would remain an unbearable sequence […]

To Graduate Students and Graduate Advisors:   I am pleased to offer EDCI 591: Ecology, Pedagogy, and Practice as a prospective course for graduate students to take this summer. This special topics course requires EOI (expression of student interest) no later than Wednesday, June 4th in order for EDCI 591 to run. As your university is part of the […]

 Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot!   Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions […]

Save the date for Tuesday, June 10th.  The Centre for Student Involvement & Careers and GPS are planning a full day career symposium including sessions by Mitacs and entrepreneurship at UBC followed by several expert panels and a networking event.   Several new sessions, including the Writing Week series, have also recently been posted here https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events.

Dear Graduate Students, Your GSS needs YOU! We’re working on a new GSS website and updating our communications materials in general (you know and we know we need to!) To that end we’d like to create a bank of images we can use in our print and online materials. We’re looking for people to photograph […]

A recommendation from Julia Ostertag … My Grief Lies all Within PhD Students

A message from Basia – The message is important for new international graduate students if they have an off-campus work permit that they applied through their previous Canadian institution before attending to UBC. If they have the permit they must transfer their eligibility verification to UBC now, otherwise they will encounter difficulties in applying for […]