The Association seeks to assist teachers and researchers in carrying out their duties of teaching and research.  It also seeks to assist departments (or their equivalents) in attracting students, providing teaching or pursuing research in Education Studies and raising the profile of the subject within institutions. It organises conferences for its members on matters relating to the subject and its well-being.

It will seek to inform the academic and professional worlds about matters affecting the well-being of the subject, expressing views or making representations to appropriate bodies (e.g., funding councils, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, ESCalate, the Training and Development Agency for Schools) and also, when necessary, lobbying government or other relevant local and national bodies. It expects to be consulted as an association for Education Studies about matters affecting the subject.

Its Executive Committee seeks to ensure that whatever it says on behalf of the Association does genuinely express the mind of the profession, by building channels of communication with the profession (including discussion of issues and policies at general meetings, a newsletter and website, and links between members of the Committee and departments). The first Executive Committee was elected at the Association’s Inaugural AGM in July 2005.

The Association works to promote an understanding in the wider community of what Education Studies is and what it can offer to students in universities and other tertiary institutions.

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