# News & Blogs
**Source**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au/news-events/news-blogs
**Parent**: https://www.education.unsw.edu.au
- 10 Mar 2026
### [Academic mentoring at UNSW: Supporting your learning and teaching journey](/news-events/news/academic-mentoring-unsw-supporting-your-learning-and-teaching-journey)
**By** **Meredith MacAulay and A/Prof. Anna Rowe.** This blog explores how evidence-based academic mentoring at UNSW supports capability building, confidence, and community in learning and teaching.
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- 24 Feb 2026
### [UNSW unveils university-wide Food Security Strategy](/news-events/news/unsw-unveils-university-wide-food-security-strategy)
The new **Food Security Strategy** includes food lockers, cooking classes, an expanded free meals program and Food Hub offering, to help students access affordable, nutritious food.
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- 19 Feb 2026
### [Teaching is relational – but now there are three of us in the relationship](/news-events/news/teaching-relational-now-there-are-three-us-relationship)
GenAI has transformed teaching from a traditional student–academic relationship into a complex triadic dynamic, challenging trust, assessment, and the very nature of thinking and learning in higher education.
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- 02 Feb 2026
### [Teaching in the age of AI: why immersive learning matters](/news-events/news/teaching-age-ai)
**By Dr Fida Hasan and Dr Chris Campbell.** As generative AI reshapes assessment, immersive learning can offer a path to authentic engagement that can't be outsourced.
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- 02 Feb 2026
### [Blogging as scholarship: Turning ideas into impact](/news-events/news/blogging-as-scholarship-turning-ideas-into-impact)
**By multiple authors.** Blogging is the doable, ‘low-hanging fruit’ of scholarly communication: it’s quick to do, easy to share, and surprisingly nourishing for your research profile.
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- 15 Dec 2025
### [Working in the blur: From transactional encounters to transformative partnerships](/news-events/news/working-blur-transactional-encounters-transformative-partnerships)
This post is the first in a three-part series that explores how academics and professional staff at UNSW are reimagining partnerships from everyday interactions to broader institutional change.
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- 11 Dec 2025
### [GUIDE: Enabling education technology innovation](/news-events/news/guide-enabling-education-technology-innovation)
The **Governance & Innovation for Digital Education (GUIDE) framework** is a university-wide approach for staff to bring forward education technology ideas and progress them through structured and transparent development pathways.
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*lens*[Ed Tech and AI in Education](/tags/ed-tech-and-ai-education)
- 11 Dec 2025
### [Streamlining EdTech Onboarding at UNSW: Project wrap-up](/news-events/news/streamlining-edtech-onboarding-unsw-project-wrap)
PVCE Educational Innovation celebrates the successful completion of the Streamlining EdTech Onboarding Processes project.
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- 08 Dec 2025
### [UNSW academic crosses the boundaries between practice, education and research in genre-busting design projects](/news-events/news/unsw-academic-crosses-boundaries-between-practice-education-research)
UNSW Senior Lecturer Eva Lloyd is bringing her students out into local and international neighbourhoods to learn for themselves how the people in these neighbourhoods live, what they need and want and how to work with them effectively.
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- 05 Dec 2025
### [Congratulations to our 2025 award-winning educators](/news-events/news/congratulations-our-2025-award-winning-educators)
Congratulations to the exceptional educators and staff who received an award for their contribution to education and teaching in 2025!
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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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- 30 Sep 2025
### [Sitting in: A peek into Education Focussed classrooms](/news-events/news/sitting-peek-education-focussed-classrooms)
**By Apple Davalos**, PVCE
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- 29 Sep 2025
### [Observing the benefits of Competency-Based Assessment through personas](/news-events/news/observing-benefits-competency-based-assessment-through-personas)
For many new-to-university students, being graded is a source of not just stress, but distress. Competency-based assessment is showing promise as a way to foster creativity and intrinsic motivation in students, while supporting their wellbeing.
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*lens*[Assessment and Feedback](/tags/assessment-and-feedback)
- 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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- 13 Aug 2025
### [Progress starts with Uni Prep: UNSW's key enabling program redesigned](/news-events/news/progress-starts-uni-prep-unsws-key-enabling-program-redesigned)
The redesign of UNSW's University Preparation Program has been approved! This Enabling program is a fee-free program of foundational learning that prepares students for undergraduate study at UNSW.
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- 08 Aug 2025
### [The importance of promoting critical AI engagement to students](/news-events/news/importance-promoting-critical-ai-engagement-students)
**AI use across industry and professions is accelerating**, and students need to be able to critically engage with this to be employment-ready upon graduation. **Dr Sharon Aris** contends that, rather than prohibit its us
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- 01 Aug 2025
### [Weaving kindness into the fabric of UNSW's strategic vision](/news-events/news/weaving-kindness-unsw-strategic-vision)
**By multiple authors**across UNSW Faculties and Divisions. Particularly since COVID, the idea of incorporating kindness into the university environment has been receiving increased interest.
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- 07 Jul 2025
### [UNSW supports Education Focussed academics in presenting educational research at SoTL conferences](/news-events/news/unsw-supports-education-focussed-academics-presenting-educational-research-sotl-conferences)
The academic tradition of sharing knowledge and connecting with colleagues at conferences is a long one, but enthusiasm has been growing for cross-disciplinary dialogue about learning and teaching.
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