Bavaria requires documentation but does not say what it consists of. TEQSA describes what process evidence is but cannot make it binding. Both aim to make documentation practically workable. Here is what that looks like and why almost nothing changes for students.

Within weeks of each other in the summer of 2026, two agencies on two continents reached the same conclusion by entirely different routes. Australia's TEQSA argues from sector practice; Bavaria legislates. Both land on documenting the path to the text.

Bavaria's draft law inverts the default: allow AI in unsupervised written exams, but document its use. What the draft says — and what it leaves open.

Dr. Monika Oertner has put the academic core competencies online as a rotatable deltahedron: it answers the question of what AI use does to it. Why this model convinces us and how our corroboration standard protects the spaces where those competencies are trained.