Staff insights
Â鶹Éçmadou staff perspectives were vital in developing the Â鶹Éçmadou academic calendar models and considerations.
The project team consulted extensively with Â鶹Éçmadou faculties, schools, divisions, and working groups to identify what works well and where challenges lie with the current academic calendar.
These insights have also helped shape other Â鶹Éçmadou improvement initiatives including the admissions transformation project, the assessment and feedback transformation program, and the special considerations uplift project.
The key themes that emerged from staff feedback gathered throughout 2024 and early 2025 included:
- pedagogical strengths and weaknesses of different term lengths
- administrative challenges and opportunities for staff under different calendar models
- opportunities for innovation in assessments and addressing issues with exams
- staff and student wellbeing considerations
- timing and lengths of breaks across the year
- considerations to support the successful implementation of a new calendar model.
These insights were incredibly valuable in assessing the strengths and challenges of each calendar model and helping to inform a decision.
We will continue to update you as we move towards implementation of our new flex-semester calendar.
