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Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.
The Education and Students portfolio leads strategic projects 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. We are committed to making the University a better place to learn and teach, fostering an environment that embodies innovation and excellence. Our initiatives span teaching and learning, curriculum and student administration, student life and wrap-around supports, including digital infrastructure support.
The aim of the Teaching and Learning Strategy Implementation program is to design and deliver projects that enhance the student educational experience in a scalable and sustainable way. This program consists of three projects: Curriculum Quality and Sustainability framework, Student Educational Experience and Scaling AI Agents (Cogniti).
The program is driving the next phase of the implementation of the Teaching and Learning Strategy (pdf, 265KB). Professor Joanne Wright, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students) is the executive sponsor for this UE top 5 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.
This initiative represents multiple projects led by the Academic Registrar division to enhance our student services systems, ensuring an improved student experience. Since early 2025, the initiative has delivered improvements to scholarships and enrolment processes. Workstreams are prioritised in accordance with the University’s Digital Sydney strategy and emerging compliance activities mandated by the federal government.
The Student Portal and Sydney Uni app provide students with a unified channel to access information, support resources and services. This initiative will ensure the continued operation and enhancement of these platforms, providing a unified digital gateway for students to access accurate, integrated, and tailored information.
Additionally, the data insights generated through the Student Portal will enable the University to make informed decisions for continuous quality improvement, leading to enhanced student-centric processes and systems. Our Current Students website will be uplifted to improve navigation and integration with the portal and app.
Read how the Student Portal was ranked number one in study by Global Reviews.
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.
The Sydney Student Voice is being piloted in Semester 2, 2025. It is a new service to support colleagues across the University to partner with students in co-designing initiatives, from developing new teaching practices to implementing operational improvements. The service is facilitated through the portfolio and involves the recruitment of student cohorts to participate in co-design forums. All coordinating functions and funding are supported by the Education and students Portfolio, so that this service can be easily accessed by colleagues in faculties and schools.
Read how the Sydney Student Voice is incorporating students into design and planning processes.
Overseen by the Division of the Academic Registrar this project is enhancing our complaints and misconduct systems and process, ensuring they are fit for purpose in the face of global issues such as the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), contract cheating and other challenges and threats.
In accordance with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency’s (TEQSA) requirement to meaningfully address generative artificial intelligence (AI), the University is implementing a refreshed approach to assessment that empowers our students to engage productively and responsibly with AI, while ensuring they achieve their learning outcomes. This project supports teams across the University to implement system and process changes to our approach to assessment, ensuring that we meet the challenges and opportunities presented by contemporary technologies.
Read how we’re transforming our assessment framework.
The Support for Students Policy was launched after the introduction o f the Higher Education Support Act in 2023. In 2024, we successfully delivered an ‘at risk’ student identification, communication and support framework across 1000-level units, as required under the policy. These initiatives, including the framework for ‘at risk students’, have expanded to include 2000-level units of study in 2025.
Read how more students are succeeding through early feedback and targeted support.
Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.
Delivery and Enablement team, Education and Students portfolio.