Veterans’ Week
Veterans’ Week honours those who have served Canada in times of war, military conflict and peace. As we honour and remember those who served and sacrificed for a better world, learn about some historic Canadians highlighted below.
Institute for Veterans Education and Transition helps bring hundreds of Afghan interpreters and their families to Canada
IVET has helped bring hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked with the Canadian military, and their families, to Canada. IVET has also helped move hundreds of Canada’s Afghan allies to safe houses in Afghanistan, where they wait, hoping for Canadian government assistance. Watch The Fifth Estate’s documentary, Abandoned in Afghanistan: Canada’s Failed Promise, which shares the efforts of Tim Laidler and the community of Canadian veterans to bring former interpreters out of Afghanistan.
New Open Online Course: Historical, Systemic and Intersectional Anti-racism: From Awareness to Action
UBC Faculty of Education is delighted to offer a free open online anti-racism course. Through systematically uncovering implicit and explicit forms of racism and its colonial and intersectional impacts on marginalized peoples and their communities, participants will gain a deep understanding of the hegemony of racism, as well as how it is embedded and experienced in everyday interactions and relationships.
UBC Black Futures
Dr. Annette Henry’s UBC Black Futures is a two-pronged project spanning three years with secondary school students and undergraduate students, part of a larger five university project. Learn more about the projects by watching the online event hosted by York University on October 6, 2021, Securing Black Futures: A National Partnership to Advance Youth Academic and Career Success.
Community Update | October 2021
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Community Update, an opportunity to share with you a little bit about what I am currently focusing on, along with some of the scholarly and other work going on in our Faculty of Education.
Maclean’s 2022 Rankings
October 12, 2021 According to the recently published 2022 Maclean’s rankings for education programs, the UBC Faculty of Education ties as 1st in Canada. Maclean’s seventh annual program rankings assess programs and research from a reputation perspective. Maclean’s contacted faculty and senior administrators at universities across Canada. Academics were asked if their area of expertise […]
Education about and for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous rights
The Last Warning educational initiative is an extension of a long-term research collaboration between the Huni Kui Indigenous People’s Federation in the Amazon and researchers from the Department of Educational Studies, including Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Dr. Cash Ahenakew and Dr. Sharon Stein.
Faculty of Education welcomes new faculty members
September 28, 2021 At the first faculty meeting of the academic year, the Faculty of Education offered a warm welcome to its newest faculty members. We are pleased to introduce them here: Dr. Erica Bennett (KIN), Assistant Professor. Grounded in critical and community approaches to physical activity psychology, Dr. Bennett’s work attends to the psychological, […]
2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
September 28, 2021 According to the recently published 2021 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject, the UBC Faculty of Education places 2nd nationally and 22nd globally for education. THE World University Rankings highlight universities that are leading across various disciplines, including education, teacher education, and academic studies in education. The subject of […]
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation UBC Faculty of Education is situated within the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Syilx (Okanagan) peoples. These lands and places are steeped in histories and knowledges of the original peoples of these territories. Orange Shirt Day, also known as the […]
