Three views of the same proposal. The first shows how a learner moves through it and where they land on the AI5K ladder. The second shows the two flywheels that keep the curriculum current. The third shows what each intervention delivers. Both map to the Commission’s five strategic priorities.
The obvious version of this diagram puts your five items down one side and the four targets across the top. It fails, because the five items are not the same kind of thing. First-year students, final-year students and unemployed graduates are populations that move through time. Curriculum update and faculty development are enablers that do not move at all — they sit underneath every stage at once. Placing both on the same axis implies faculty development is a stage a student passes through, which is not true and which makes the diagram harder to read the longer you look at it.
So the journey view puts time on the horizontal axis and role on the vertical: who moves, what accumulates, what enables. Enablers are drawn as full-width foundation bars, which is both accurate and rhetorically useful — it shows the Commission that curriculum and faculty are the load-bearing elements rather than two programmes among five.
Every element now carries its own proof, on a four-point scale: delivered (dated, numbered, substantiable), under way (built or running, outcome not yet in), not yet run (proposed, no evidence claimed), and new in this draft (removable). Zone 4 sets out the dated track record underneath, and each card states what that item actually proves rather than just what it was.
Two further points the layout makes without argument. Unemployed and underemployed graduates enter laterally, not at the start — they are the fastest cohort to convert and the largest today, and drawing them as a side entry at final year says so. And rural youth run on a parallel track that can feed tertiary entry or direct earning, which is the honest depiction: Programme C does not require a degree to pay off.
Both views are vector. Print this page to A4 landscape for a hard copy of each, or use the standalone SVG files, which drop into Word, PowerPoint or the proposal itself at any size without loss. The journey view is the one to put in front of the Chairman; the matrix is the one to leave behind with a working team.