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The University of British Columbia now ranks 22^nd among the world’s universities, according to the 2011-2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, released yesterday in London, U.K. In a survey of the top 400 institutions around the world, UBC jumped eight spots from last year’s rank of 30^th. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings use 13 indicators to measure the university’s performance in teaching, research, research influence, innovation and international outlook. Nine Canadian universities ranked among Times Higher Education’s list of top 200.

“UBC’s ranking reflects our academic excellence and commitment to international engagement,” says UBC President Prof. Stephen Toope.

Read more about UBC’s rise among the top of 500 universities worldwide via UBC Public Affairs’ latest press release at: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/10/06/ubc-ranks-22nd-among-world-universities-jumping-eight-spots/.

Did You Know?

There are currently over 40 speeches archived in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. You can access them in the Speeches by UBC President  Stephen J. Toope collection in cIRcle.

Above image is courtesy of the UBC Public Affairs‘ website

Open Access Week @ UBC 2011 is only three months away!

This year, the event theme is Open UBC and it will be held in conjunction with the International Open Access Week event, which encourages the academic community to come together to share and learn about open scholarship initiatives locally and worldwide.

Open UBC will be offering a week chock full of diverse events highlighting areas of open scholarship and research. In case you have not attended nor participated in Open Access Week @ UBC events in the past, these events typically include discussion forums, seminars, lectures, workshops, and symposia on topical yet timely issues from a variety of disciplines.

You are invited to attend and/or participate in these FREE and open public events happening during the week of October 24-30, 2011.

With an open “Call for Participation”, this is your opportunity to get involved and share your scholarly output or research and/or tools with fellow UBC researchers, faculty, students, staff and the public.

Did You Know?

Last year, there were many Page displays, File downloads, and Top Country Views of the Open Access Week @ UBC event presentations which are archived within the Library Events collection in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. At a quick glance, here are the Top Country Views from Open Access Week held during October 18-24, 2010: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States of America. To view the statistical detail of a cIRcle item, click on the “Show Statistical Information” hyperlink at the bottom of the item page.

Above image and partial excerpt in italics are courtesy of the Scholarly Communications @UBC website

Newly added conference papers to cIRcle!

The Explorations & Education Conference is the collaborative effort of graduate student representatives from the Graduate Student Council for the Faculty of Education, the Department of Educational Studies and the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We have come together specifically to create a safe space for the exchange of academic ideas and to create opportunities particularly for graduate students (at all levels of study) to present their ideas and research.

This conference was held at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus) on April 1, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that cIRcle has recently added a few of these conference papers and that there will be some more conference papers coming soon. So, take a few minutes to enjoy reading them by visiting the Explorations and Education conference collection at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/34295.

Did You Know?

Coming soon – The latest cIRcle conference collection to be added to the Faculty of Education community under “Education Conferences” is “Investigating Our Practices”. Stay tuned for more details!

Above excerpt in italics is courtesy of the UBC Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy website

Above image is courtesy of the Explorations and Education announcement