The era of treating AI as merely an assessment integrity or tool-procurement issue is over. The final piece in this five-part series, “The Wrong Emergency”, shifts from diagnosing the “Governance Gap” to providing a concrete leadership action plan aimed at the real crisis: curriculum inertia.
Written explicitly for Deputy and Pro Vice-Chancellors (DVCs/PVCs), the article outlines a rigorous, achievable 12-month roadmap for institutional transformation. It begins with two foundational decisions: leaders must publicly name the outdated curriculum as the institution’s most pressing challenge, and they must assign singular, senior ownership to bypass standard committee bottlenecks.
From there, the plan details how to systematically rebuild the architecture of your academic offerings. Key milestones include:
- Conducting an honest institutional audit of the curriculum rather than just reviewing AI policies.
- Creating an accelerated curriculum amendment pathway that overrides slow, multi-year review cycles.
- Implementing a mandatory, sustained professional development framework that moves beyond generic tool training to true disciplinary application.
- Launching a supported cohort of substantive curriculum redesign projects.
This is not a theoretical exercise; it is a practical blueprint for DVCs and Heads of Educational Development to move beyond policy discussions and into substantive pedagogical change.
Generative AI presents a rare opportunity to reimagine higher education, but only if institutions act decisively and collectively. The diagnosis is complete, and the plan is here.
Read the complete step-by-step timeline and discover how to lead this critical transition in the final piece on Substack.
