When I took over PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change in 2022, two reviews of the Master of Health Leadership and Management (MHLM; the reviews were a UNSW Academic Program Review and an independent program review in 2021-2022) had found that this core course needed to cover a wider range of topics. I also found that its aims and

In most courses I have taught in or reviewed, assessment weights rise across the term. The biggest and most-weighted task has been at the end, so students receive feedback on about half or less of their overall marks before the task that has the highest stakes. In redesigning PHCM9391 I tried to change this. The sequence is now front-weighted, so

Early institutional messaging about generative AI mostly told students not to use it. For health management students this was a problem because they’re moving into planning and policy roles where AI is already shaping decisions, and they needed to form judgements about what these systems produce and how they might be useful (or not). In Term 1

TEQSA's 2025 guidance on assessment reform asked universities to explain how their assessments were secured without giving them much guidance on how to answer the question. For mostly online postgraduate programs with working cohorts like the ones I teach in, the return to examinations and oral assessment that most institutions have reached for are among the least suitable or feasible.