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To help craft a strong and positive future for our students, the University has embarked on a journey to design a future-fitÌýlearning and teaching strategy:Ìý

Attendees engaged with the key ideas informing the strategy at the final festival event,ÌýonÌý31 October,ÌýFuture-focused Curriculum: Fit for a new University.

Features of October Program

KEYNOTE

Future focused curriculum and the new university: A First Nations petition/entreaty
Professor Steven Larkin, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement, University of ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É.

This keynote presentation discusses the joint commitment to design a future focusedÌýcurriculum for the new university as both momentous and profound given the new university’s compelling aspirations to eliminate educational disadvantage, prioritise First Nations success, and achieve social equity. A new curriculum provides the new university with unique once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to shape these reform agendas through its provision of a future focusedÌýtertiary education program. This paper advocates that unwavering commitments to decolonisation and the dismantling of colonial mindsets that continue to permeate higher education are fundamental to this new direction.

Professor Steve Larkin’s keynote address:ÌýFuture focused curriculum and the new university: A First Nations petition/entreaty.

A full paper including a bibliography will be made available at a later date.

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Images of Learning and Teaching Prize Winners

This year staff from the Barr Smith Library coordinated the inaugural Images of Learning and Teaching photographic competition.

Open to both staff and students, this competition encouraged entrants to visualise the transformative power of learning and teaching at the University of ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É.ÌýWinners of this year's competition were announced at the Festival and presented with their prizes.