Message from the Chair of the Board

I have had the privilege of a long career in Higher Education – as a teacher, a researcher and an administrator. Being a great member of academic staff is more challenging than ever. The pressures and expectations on young staff continue to grow. Although we are institutions who teach thousands of students each year, we do a surprisingly poor job of teaching our staff how to succeed. All too often we just assume that if you have been a PhD student you will know how to do research or if you have been a graduate student you will know how to teach. This is simply not true. AIFE is our attempt to address this issue. We have brought together academic staff who are internationally recognised for their abilities as teachers and researchers to offer courses for academic staff. We want these outstanding academics to pass on their skills to the next generation of academic staff. We believe this will be great career development for these junior staff and an investment in the success of their universities.

Now that AIFE has been launched we are focussed on working with partner universities to sign up our first cohort of students (your staff) and commence our programs in 2024.

Professor Ian Young AO

Chair of the Board, AIFE