Higher education frequently treats grades as exact indicators of learning. For example, one student might get 74%, while another earns 75%. Similarly, one might be awarded a Credit and the other a Distinction. Transcripts, GPA calculations, scholarship rankings, and postgraduate admissions all operate under the assumption that these distinctions are […]
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What If Failure Isn’t Failure? Rethinking Learning in Higher Education
Watch anyone engaged in genuine learning, whether it’s a child wobbling on their bike, a filmmaker wrestling with an edit, or a student drafting an essay, and one thing becomes clear: learning is messy. It’s tangled, unpredictable, and full of false starts. The progress of learning never moves in a straight […]
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Seeing the Thinking: What Creative Arts Assessment Practices Can Offer Other Disciplines
Generative AI has forced higher education into a renewed conversation about assessment, which has been long overdue. Universities and educators are now asking familiar assessment questions with urgency: What exactly are we assessing? How do we recognise evidence of student thinking? And what does authentic learning look like when polished outputs can […]
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Creativity Belongs to Every Discipline: Why Access Matters
Creativity Is a Capability, Not a Discipline In higher education, we often speak about creativity as though it belongs to particular disciplines, media, design, and the creative arts. Creativity does not belong to a single faculty, it is a core capability every graduate should develop. If universities exist to prepare […]
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Closing the Gap Between Learning Outcomes and Student Learning in Higher Education
Learning outcomes remain central to our courses. They influence course proposals, underpin accreditation documents, guide course reviews, and enable curriculum mapping across units and assessments. Institutionally, they are vital. They ensure coherence, provide reassurance, and uphold accountability. They enable us to confidently articulate what a graduate of a specific course […]