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Three FASS disciplines in global top 50 in the THE subject rankings
The University of Sydney continues to excel in the latest Times Higher Education subject rankings with six disciplines in the global top 50. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 265 -5 December 2025
Latest news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2025 FASS Newsletter submission and publishing deadlines
Content requests and updates
Who to contact for website and intranet sites maintenance requests and AEM access.
This is a list of University site administrators/webmasters and the websites they administer.
New Partnership Hub
The Central External Engagement Portfolio has recently launched a new Partnership Hub to help university staff access support for promoting themselves and the University as a partner of choice.
News and events
Building wellbeing in 2025
Explore the What’s on Wellbeing 2025 calendar and discover a wealth of events and learning and development opportunities for you to participate in across the year.
Popular FASS Systems
- Arts Explorer (needs VPN off campus)
- Sydney Curriculum
- How to guides for Sydney Curriculum Outlines
- Search for previous FASS outlines (2016-2019) - (log in required)
- Results Processing System (needs VPN off campus) (RPS)
- SharePoint 365
- Swift Digital
-FASS Exam QA
Events
Parramatta Lanes
The University of Sydney is the proud Education Partner of Parramatta Lanes 2026, bringing our teaching, research and creative talent to the heart of the city. Join our world-class academics at Sydney Ideas Pop Talks or listen to our students, some of Australia's great emerging musical talents, at the Jazz Bar.
Dr Charles Perkins AO Memorial Oration and Prize
The 26th annual Dr Charles Perkins Oration and Memorial Prize is an opportunity to celebrate outstanding scholarship from our students and be inspired by this year's orator, Duane Fraser. Duane is a Wulgurukaba and Bidjara man, raised between Tennant Creek and Magnetic Island.
Community Festival
A day of ideas, connection and community, the University of Sydney Community Festival will play host to live entertainment and family friendly activities, inspiring talks, hands-on workshops and guided tours – as well as great food for you, your friends and family. Register one or more additional guests before Wednesday 4 November for the chance to win food and beverage vouchers to enjoy at the Festival.
Updates and services
The University is aware that the NTEU has voted to take further industrial action on 13 October
The University is seeking to continue constructive discussions with the NTEU at the bargaining table. Its position in Enterprise Agreement negotiations will only change through good faith bargaining and will not change in response to industrial action. Staff taking the action, and their managers, should review information on the protected industrial action intranet page.
In response to TEQSA guidance encouraging universities to strengthen how they manage risks to student and staff safety and wellbeing
This includes potential risks associated with people from outside our university community accessing our campuses. In that regard, we are consulting with our staff and students on a new draft Video Surveillance Policy. The draft policy would replace our current CCTV procedures and proposes the introduction of body-worn cameras. Body-worn cameras help provide an accurate record of incidents and responses, support transparency and safety. The cameras would only be used when appropriate and in line with our legal and privacy requirements, and any footage collected would be securely managed and handled in accordance with relevant legislation and our University policies. You can find more information about the draft policy and the use of these cameras, including frequently asked questions, on the University’s Policy register page. Consultation closes midnight Friday 16 October.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Contractor Safety Management System (CSMS)
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- emma (formerly EmmaHQ)
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Maps (Campus Maps)
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Remote Support
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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