What needs to change?

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Summary

The opening conversation of Beyond Syllabus. Students and student communities describe where the system loses them: assessment that rewards memory over capability, curricula that lag the world by a decade, and the absence of any channel through which learners can shape what they learn.

Key questions

Why does learning stop when the syllabus ends?
Who is assessment actually for?
What would students build if they could change one thing tomorrow?

Important observations

Students describe peer communities, not classrooms, as where their most useful learning happens.
The gap is not motivation — it is the absence of legitimate alternatives to marks.

Where we agreed

Assessment reform is the highest-priority demand across every student community present.
Students want a permanent feedback channel into curriculum decisions.

Where we disagreed

Whether change should come through the existing system or by building parallel structures alongside it.

Proposed solutions

A student-maintained public review of the curriculum, updated every term.
Portfolio-based assessment piloted alongside — not instead of — existing exams.

Transcript

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