Douglas Todd: Canadian boys suffer from lack of male teachers
UBC Education Professor Emeritus Marv Westwood was interviewed for a Vancouver Sun column about the need for Canadian boys to have male teachers as positive role models.
Can we really teach ‘Indigenizing’ courses online?
The Conversation mentioned UBC’s course “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education” in an article about Indigenization.
School district applauds commitment to recruit French teachers from abroad
An article in Pique Magazine mentioned the creation of 37 additional spaces in French teacher-education programs at UBC and Simon Fraser University over the next two years.
Miquela lives somewhere on Instagram, between fiction and reality
Ron Darvin is interviewed by Publico, a Portuguese newspaper, on how we construct identities through digital media.
Self-taught carpenter building a whole new skill set in adulthood
Metro News interviewed Dr. Shauna Butterwick, a professor emerita of adult education at UBC, for a story about learning new skills in adulthood.
Canada’s curiously cautious commemoration of women suffragists
Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, a UBC professor emerita in educational studies, wrote an op-ed about women suffragists for The Conversation.
Big Questions Unanswered in Government’s Child Care Plans
Dr. Guofang Li was interviewed by The Tyee about the need to include professional learning for early childhood teachers to better support them to teach and care for children from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and economic backgrounds in the BC government’s $1 billion investment in universal childcare programs in the next three years.
New sports, physiotherapy facility opens at UBC
News 1130 reported on the Chan Gunn Pavilion, a new sports and physiotherapy facility at UBC which will be used by faculty and students from the School of Kinesiology.
Canada’s globally top-ranked university programs, according to QS
Huffington Post reported that UBC has several top-ranked programs in the world, including the School of Kinesiology under sports-related subjects.
40th Annual Physics Olympics Held in Vancouver
Xinhua highlighted the 40th annual Physics Olympics that took place at UBC on March 10, 2018.