1. Assisting those with responsibility for the well-being of the subject in their promotion and fostering of it

• providing support for individual Education Studies staff, whether members of the Association or not, in performing their professional duties;
• assisting Education Studies departments in their role of ensuring the well-being of the subject;
• making services available to learned societies which may assist them in carrying out their purposes; and
• organising conferences on themes of interest and concern in Education Studies.

2. Speaking for the discipline within UK Higher Education

• responding to consultative documents, requests for information or for nominations for membership of committees, from funding councils, the QAA, ESCalate – and submitting observations to such bodies, whether solicited or not, when appropriate;
• making representations, when deemed necessary, to government departments, appropriate official bodies, or political parties;
• pursuing particular matters of concern to the subject;
• keeping a watching brief on general trends and specific developments in higher education and elsewhere (e.g. in schools) so far as these may affect the work of members or the well-being of the subject, either immediately or in the long term;
• co-operating with official bodies, where it is judged appropriate and under carefully considered terms, to assist the latter in carrying out tasks they have been charged to perform; and maintaining contact with other bodies with relevantly similar concerns.