In this newsletter:

• Travel Voucher Tickets on Sale 29-Jan-2014
• Faculty of Education PhD Seminar Series
• Please Submit Course Outlines
• Call for Papers
• New Assistant to the Dean

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TRAVEL VOUCHER TICKETS ON SALE 29-JAN-2014

Tickets on the travel voucher will be available tomorrow, 29-Jan-2014.  Tickets will support our International & Indigenous Specializations, and be available from specialization students, or in the main office (Memorial 402).  Tickets are $20 and  only 600 will be sold.  Support our students with your purchase, and start planning where you might go if you win!

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION PhD SEMINAR SERIES

Please join us for Nicky Hyndman’s public presentation on 06-Feb-2014 from 9:30-10:30am. Her presentation is entitled: Doing homework, doing best?: Homework as a site of gendered neoliberal governance. The presentation will be held in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building.

All are welcome to attend.

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PLEASE SUBMIT COURSE OUTLINES

Just a reminder that if you have not already forwarded an electronic copy of your winter course outline(s) to the main office, please do so soon so that they may forwarded to the library and the office records will be complete.  You can send them to Karen-Anne or Cathy.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2014 TRI-NATIONS EDUCATION CONFERENCE (March 29-30, 2014)

The 2014 Tri-Nations Education Conference — Internationalization in Education: Its Nature, Challenges and Possibilities in an Increasingly Globalized World, will be held March 29-30, 2014 in Vancouver, BC.  The conference is intended to encourage research exchange and collaboration on topics of importance to educators from around the world, but especially of interest in the Asia-Pacific Region.  Paper and presentation proposals are invited in any area related to the overall theme of the conference.  Proposals can be submitted by 16-Feb-2014 at http://trinations.educ.ubc.ca

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NEW ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN

Karen-Anne O’Halloran is the new Assistant to the Dean!   She is hesitant to move because when snacks come to the office they often go on her desk (true story), but eventually she will make her way into Memorial 403.