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Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.
The Education and Students portfolio leads a coordinated program of strategic initiatives to ensure our student-focused education is transformational, as well as a range of compliance initiatives to ensure we remain up to date with sector standards.
Aligned with out Sydney in 2032 aspiration, this work brings together improvements around curriculum, teaching and learning, student feedback, student life and enabling systems; ensuring a more consistent, high-quality and future -focused experience for students.
Through the Student Experience Program and Collective Excellence 2026-2028 (CE28), these initiatives are delivered as a connected program of work, supporting our ambition to be No1 in the Go8 for student experience.
This work aligns with Digital Sydney, which is enabling a more personalised, accessible and connected digital environment that supports a world-class student experience.
Collective Excellence 2026–2028 (CE28) guides how we will work across the next three years, bringing together our education and research priorities under a shared framework to support our Sydney in 2032 aspirations.
These initiatives are designed to work as an integrated system, reinforcing the others to drive a systemic uplift in the student education experience.
Under the Education priorities, the Education & Students portfolio is progressing four key initiatives.
Establishes a consistent, university-wide approach to designing and reviewing curriculum, making degrees simpler, more navigable, and sustainable while ensuring alignment to quality standards
For more information on this initiative: Curriculum Quality and Sustainability - Intranet - The University of Sydney
Integrates AI into curriculum, and assessment to ensure learning outcomes remain relevant, secure, and aligned to future workforce needs.
For more information on this initiative: Teaching & Learning response to Artificial Intelligence - Intranet - The University of Sydney
Implements a validated, university-wide approach to capturing student feedback at the unit level and on the teaching within it, providing consistent, evidence-based insights to inform improvement and accountability.
For more information on this initiative: Student Evaluation of Teaching - Intranet - The University of Sydney
For more information on the Teacher Check-In initiative.
Defines and embeds shared expectations for high-quality teaching across the University, supported by ongoing monitoring, evidence, and continuous improvement
The Student Experience focuses on creating a welcoming, student-centred campus environment. It brings together work on a food and beverage strategy, an accommodation strategy, and a campus masterplan project, to improve the quality of on-campus experiences that support learning, wellbeing and lifelong connection with the University. It will be evidence-based and inclusive of the student voice.
Beginning in 2026, the Student Experience Steering Committee, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, will contribute to this through a focus on student engagement, student services, student facilities, student connections, and student wellbeing.
Visit the Student Experience Program page for more information on this initiative.
The MySydney Entry and Scholarship Scheme (MySydney) provides students from low socio-economic backgrounds with an alternative entry pathway, annual scholarship and wrap-around personal and academic support. Read about the positive outcomes from targeted support for MySydney students.
The Sydney Short Courses project has designed and delivered the new centralised University marketplace for the provision of short courses and microcredentials: Sydney Short Courses. This includes the ongoing management of infrastructure and services to enable faculties, schools and centres to realise new and optimise existing revenue through non-award education (microcredentials, short courses, executive education and continuing professional development (CPD)).
Read how Sydney Short Courses is supporting our aspiration to create lifelong learning opportunities.
Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.
Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.