Network for Staff and Educational Development

NetSED, the Network for Staff and Educational Development (NetSED), which sponsors the journal, is a voluntary non-profit making international forum committed to improve teaching, learning and training at all levels, and the quality of processes and products associated with these. It provides a forum for networking institutions, associations, federations, groups and individuals and their activities on staff training/development, and educational development, and thereby facilitates learning from each other. For these activities, NetSED, as a national representative, is a member of the International Consortium for Educational Development, UK. NetSED has a variety of interest areas and operations, including the improvement of the quality of teaching and learning within higher education and the quality of human resource development in education and industry.

• Provide a forum for discussion and dissemination of ideas and innovations in teaching, learning and training within the framework of staff and educational development.
• Promote corporate training and provide a network for exchange of ideas on human resource development.
• Organise conferences, seminars, workshops etc. on issues and themes related to educational development and staff development/training, with both national and international focus.
• Provide on outlet for educational developers and staff developers to further their interests and innovations in this emerging area of activity and concern.
• Promote awareness and exchange of ideas and skills in these areas through orientation and training programmes, meetings and publications.
• Encourage research and development activities, and thereby promote professionalism among staff and educational developers.
• Interact and liaise with national and international networks, associations, societies, and groups with related objectives and activities.

• Publication of scholarly journal, magazine, handbooks, and "staff and educational development series".
• Organisation of seminars, conferences workshops, symposia, colloquia on a varieties of themes related to staff and educational development.
• Networking of services for institutions and individuals working for staff and educational development.
• Collection and dissemination of ideas, innovations, practices and research on staff and educational development.
• Support to members' research and development projects on themes related to staff and educational development.
• Maintenance of close contact and interaction with national and international organizations on staff and educational development.

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