Joining AUA will help your career in HE by keeping you informed of current issues and providing opportunities for your professional development and the sharing of best practice.
Networking opportunities through conference, regional activities and increasingly, electronic means will ensure that you are never isolated from your colleagues and can share information and expertise.
Membership offers the opportunity to look beyond your own institution and gain understanding of the key issues and new ideas in HE management, nationally and internationally.There are also opportunities for you to influence those ideas yourself. If you want to be challenged by looking at the wider agenda in the sector, beyond your own specialism, then you will find AUA meets your needs.
AUA can
- support your career development
- put you in touch with professionals like you - in your institution, the UK, Ireland and internationally
- help you solve problems
- keep you informed
- raise the profile of your profession
free to members
- perspectives, the quarterly international journal
- newslink, the quarterly newsletter
- aua-news, weekly electronic bulletins
- aua-forum, email list for sharing information and best practice
- each new good practice guide
- annual lecture presented by high profile speakers
- mentor training (for mentors supporting AUA's Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice)
and the opportunity to benefit from
- AUA's Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Practice
- networking with over 4,000 higher education professionals
- annual conference and exhibition
- discounts on professional development programme of seminars, courses and workshops
- discounts on publications
- international links and travel awards
- reduced subscription fee to the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM) journal
- reduced rates for Public Management Policy Association (PMPA) membership
Widen the opportunities for your professional development and career in HE
Where are you now? Where do you want to go?
Do you want to develop a successful career in HE? Are you visible? Do you want to raise your profile? AUA offers many opportunities for you to meet with your colleagues and for you to share your expertise and experience. This could be by presenting a conference session or seminar or writing an article for newslink or perspectives - or even joining an AUA committee or task group and contributing to the strategy of the Association.
Are you new to higher education?
AUA can provide the information resources you need to quickly become familiar with the current issues in HE. Your local branch may provide opportunities for you to meet others at your institution.
Have you already established a career in higher education administration?
Networking opportunities through conference, regional activities and, increasingly, electronic means will ensure that you are never isolated from your colleagues and can share information and expertise
Are you a senior professional in higher education?
Are you committed to promoting excellence in higher education management? Are your staff equipped to meet the professional challenges ahead? AUA can provide the professional development opportunities to help you realise your goals.
Never feel isolated
Membership offers the opportunity to meet colleagues in your own institution, through your branch meetings, as well as throughout the country. Gain an understanding of key issues and new ideas in HE management, nationally and internationally. There are also opportunities for you to influence those ideas yourself. If you want to be challenged by looking at the wider agenda in the sector, beyond your own specialism, then you will find AUA meets your needs.