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Join the group photo for our new UNSW Strategy – Progress for All website!

Be there by 9:45am, Wednesday 29 January 2025

We're inviting all UNSW students and staff to star in our Progress for All group photo, which will feature across UNSW Strategy assets, including our website.

The first 50 participants will receive coupons to collect a free T-shirt in February!

Location: Alumni Lawn outside the Esme Timbery Practice Lab

Attire: Please wear a UNSW T-shirt or hoodie, if you have one

Register now

Join us for the largest Orientation Week in the Southern Hemisphere!

Monday 10 February to Friday 14 February 2025

O-Week, or Orientation Week, is the best opportunity for you to get a taste of university life before the first week of term. Along with meeting fellow students and academics at O-Week, you can:

  • Explore over 350 clubs and societies to join
  • Tag along for campus tours and attend fun events
  • Learn about support services that can help you transition to UNSW
  • Grab free food and merch from various stalls!
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Help us shape UNSW's future academic calendar

Provide your feedback by Friday 21 February 2025

We want to hear from you! The university has explored 20 possible future calendar options and narrowed them down to two stand-out drafts:

  • A calendar with a new two-core teaching term structure
  • A calendar with a new and improved three-core teaching term structure.

Check out our possible academic calendar models and share your thoughts about the two options to help us determine the future of UNSW. The final decision on our new academic calendar will be made in early 2025 with roll-out starting from 2027 or 2028, depending on the calendar chosen.

Share your feedback

FAQs

Find answers to the questions we get asked the most about studying at UNSW.

  • Enrolment is a two-step process at UNSW: course enrolment and class registration, all done through myUNSW. Each term, you will be assigned a class registration appointment to finalise your timetable for the upcoming teaching period. 

    To choose which courses to enrol and register in, browse through your Program Handbook to view your options. 

  • Tuition for your studies will be shown as payable on your Fee Statement until the census date for the enrolment. It allows you to make a student contribution to your fees upfront if you would like to reduce the amount that gets deferred to your HECS-HELP.

    If you have enough balance to defer to HECS-HELP and don't want to pay your student contributions upfront, your fees will be automatically deferred after the census date of the enrolment and no further action is required from you. Payments made after the census date will not be applied to your student contribution charges for the current enrolment.

  • The release of course content on Moodle is managed by each course convenor. Typically, the Moodle content is made available a week before the commencement of the term. However, it is also common for some course content to be available on Moodle only from the first day of the term. 

    If you have recently updated your enrolment, please allow 48 hours for the course to appear on your Moodle. If you still do not have access to these courses and have confirmed that you are correctly registered in the course on myUNSW, contact your course convenors via email to request access. 

    View the Timetable website for each course to find information on your course convenors. 

  • If you have pending grades such as LE, WC, WJ or WD, you may have a provisional academic standing. Academic standing will be recalculated on a weekly basis until your withheld results are resolved. However, if your academic standing has still not been recalculated a week after your grades have been updated, contact The Nucleus: Student Hub for support. 

  • If you are unable to to sit your exam or submit your assessment by the due date because of circumstances beyond your control, you may be eligible to apply for Special Consideration or Short Extension. 

    Short Extension is a new process that allows you to apply for an extended deadline on your assessment without the need for supporting documentation, providing immediate approval during brief, life-disrupting events. 

    If you are unable to attend your exam, require more time to complete your assessment, or your course does not offer Short Extension, you may check your eligibility for Special Consideration instead. 

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