# News

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- 23 Oct 2025

  ### [Valid assessment is a plausible argument not an absolute](/news-events/news/valid-assessment-plausible-argument-not-absolute)

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- 19 Sep 2025

  ### [Listening to data, leading with belonging: Reflections from the QILT Symposium and NSW HE Summit 2025](/news-events/news/listening-data-leading-belonging-reflections-qilt-symposium-and-nsw-he-summit-2025)

  Summits, symposia and conferences offer unique opportunities to share information and gain insights.

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- 15 Oct 2024

  ### [Comparing apples and oranges: Transforming assessment at UNSW with Programmatic Assessment for Learning](/news-events/news/comparing-apples-and-oranges-programmatic-assessment-learning)

  **Diana Saragi Turnip, A/Prof. Priya Khanna Pathak and Prof. Gary Velan** outline UNSW's approach to Programmatic Assessment for Learning

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- 16 Sep 2024

  ### [Perspectives on the NSW Higher Education Summit as a community thought incubator](/news-events/news/perspectives-nsw-higher-education-summit-community-thought-incubator)

  Find out how the NSW Higher Education Summit brings people together to share ideas and tackle the big issues facing the sector through open, honest conversations.

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- 12 Jul 2024

  ### [2 lanes or 6 lanes? It depends on what you are driving: Use of AI in Assessment](/news-events/news/two-six-lanes-ai-assessment)

  **Prof. Alex Steel**, Director AI Strategy, Education, shares his own (and UNSW’s) views and approaches to managing students’ use of AI in assessments. Learn why, and how, we implement the six categories of permitted use of GenAI.

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- 04 Jul 2024

  ### [Wars, lanes, babies, rabbits and shovels: Reflections on the New South Wales Higher Education Summit](/news-events/news/reflections-on-nsw-he-summit-2024)

  **Dr Helena Pacitti & A/Prof. Jason Lodge** reflect on the New South Wales Higher Education Summit 2024, held on Friday 28 June, which focused on artificial intelligence and assessment.

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- 21 Jun 2024

  ### [Can portfolio pedagogy be shaken by AI?](/news-events/news/can-portfolio-pedagogy-be-shaken-ai)

  **By Prof. Patsie Polly** (UNSW Sydney)& **A/Prof. Kathryn Coleman** (University of Melbourne), reflect on the interplay of ePortfolios and AI.

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- 17 May 2024

  ### [Teaching students to value education rather than marks – competency grading at UNSW](/news-events/news/competency-grading-unsw)

  **By Prof. Liz Angstmann**, **A/Prof. Helen Gibbon** & **Dr Ben Phipps**, UNSW Nexus Fellows

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- 07 May 2024

  ### [Programmatic Assessment: Are we there yet?](/news-events/news/programmatic-assessment-are-we-there-yet)

  **By A/Prof.** **Priya Khanna & Prof. Gary Velan**, UNSW Medicine & Health

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- 11 Aug 2023

  ### [2023 NSW Higher Education Summit – Impressions from a PhD Researcher in Higher Education](/news-events/news/nsw-higher-education-summit-impressions)

  **By Felipe Balotin Pinto,** Scientia PhD candidate & Teaching Fellow

  Whilst technology is vital to the future of HE, the Summit reminded us of the key role of those responsible for driving this transformation.

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- 19 Apr 2023

  ### [Myth-busting on curricular approaches to student wellbeing](/news-events/news/myth-busting-approaches-student-wellbeing)

  **By Jacky Cranney, Nalini Pather, Leesa Sidhu, Gary Velan;** SEA Fellows

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  Scientia Education Academy Fellows discuss how rigorous psychological science of wellbeing translates into curricular design and delivery.

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- 23 Mar 2023

  ### [Who benefits from grading first year?](/news-events/news/grading-first-year)

  **By Professor** **Elizabeth (Liz) Angstmann**, UNSW Science\
  Liz shares her experience of trialing the removal of grades from a physics course, by unpacking the rationale for the move...

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