Posts from the ‘education’ category

Mix it up in 2012

It’s the first week of the year, first week of the term… A time of reflection and projection. A time to mix things up and try…

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Laura Bain – Living with Bipolar Type II – TEDxTerryTalks 2011

Laura Bain speaks about living with Bipolar Type II Disorder, the trials and tribulations, but also how it informs her vibrant character and wonderful sense of…

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Tuition: a conservative view

It’s a fact of life that certain programs cost more to study than others.  Presumably this is due to expected earnings in one’s career; those who…

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Sauder Africa: Building Entrepreneurial Success in Kenyan Slums

It has already been 6 years since the first team of UBC students started teaching basic business skills courses in the poorest slums of Nairobi, Kenya. We…

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(Don’t) Lie To Me – ’cause I can’t tell

As someone who tries to stay on top of new and exciting academic development, (or, in other words, someone who reads twitter feeds on an hourly…

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Education Failing on Failure

In my Terry Blogging debut I’m going to cautiously begin with a critical observation of the Terry Blog.  In spite of my love for the Terry…

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Even preschoolers know how to save the Earth

Image courtesy Georgia, of http://www.chrisroberson.net With World Water Day and Earth Hour both happening this week, I’ve been reflecting on the personal actions I’ve made towards cutting down…

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Rebecca Gu – Conservation Challenges in Development.

Name: Rebecca Gu Talk Title: “Conservation Challenges in Development.” Notes: Sauder School of Business; Topic: Environmentalism was a movement that was largely born out of the…

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Chasing Down Passion: Jacqueline Chong

Name: Jacqueline Chong Talk Title: “Chasing Down Passion” Notes: Faculty of Arts; BFA 2011 Film Production Topic: I was once told that nothing in the world…

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Social Media is Dead: Brad Peppinck

Name: Brad Peppinck Talk Title: “Social Media is Dead: The death of Web 2.0 and the growing importance of Web 0.5” Notes: Faculty of Arts, Art…

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