From the London’s financial district to UBC’s Faculty of Education
Former banker Walid Muslih decided ‘I want to be in the classroom’ It wasn’t long ago that Walid Muslih toiled in the high-rises of London and New York, a successful banker analyzing debt capital markets. Working in the towers of big-city financial districts—suit and tie’d—his “exciting, always changing” career rode epic waves such as the […]
Faculty of Education: What’s new for 2013-2014
Faculty research, intimate learning environments, close ties and new programs.
PhD Student leads teacher candidates in Tanzania
Bourne and her team sought to invest in a Tanzanian community by creating school books in Swahili and English for a Tanzanian classroom, but the investment —to the Canadian classroom—is just getting started. It is hard to imagine the petite woman with sun-kissed hair and trendy blue capris anywhere except in the Okanagan. The […]
What really matters in education?
Distinguished visiting scholar discusses the value of teaching in a changing world.