About the ANU EFS
The ANU Educational Fellowship Scheme (EFS) provides educators, including academic and professional staff who support learning, with internationally-accredited professional recognition of their experience and expertise in university education. ANU is able to offer the EFS to its staff by being a subscriber to Advance HE (previously Higher Education Academy or HEA), an independent, non-profit organisation committed to world-class teaching in higher education.
The Teaching Support and Recognition team will help you throughout the application process. We support and award three categories of fellowship; Associate Fellow of the HEA (AFHEA), Fellow of the HEA (FHEA) and Senior Fellow of the HEA (SFHEA). In addition, we support applicants for the Principal Fellow of the HEA (PFHEA) category for direct application with Advance HE. Whichever category you choose, you will be asked to reflect on your practices, values and philosophies as an educator, your accumulated experiences in higher education, and different kinds of education-related expertise.
Visit our ‘Apply for the EFS‘ page to learn more about the program.
What are our aims?
Aim 1
To support individual members of academic or professional staff from the ANU to gain internationally endorsed professional recognition through an appropriate category of Advance HE fellowship. Fellowship award requires applicants to describe, reflect on, and evidence past practice that includes:
- experience in, and knowledge of, teaching and learning at tertiary level, and/or student learning support;
- engagement with relevant professional development; and
- commitment to professional values and professionalism as a university educator.
Aim 2
To develop and support a community of fellows across the ANU community to share best practice and engage in ongoing educational professional development.
Aim 3
To broaden the approach to professional development and professional recognition of teaching and learning activities at ANU, by providing staff with:
- a reflective framework of standards that gives ANU staff involved in teaching and learning a clear understanding of what they do, how they do it, and why they do it that way;
- a recognition structure linked to the Professional Learning programs run by CLT;
- an externally benchmarked measure of esteem for promotion cases, performance reviews, and job applications; and
- opportunities for ongoing peer engagement, networking, and intra- and cross-institutional benchmarking opportunities.
Aim 4
To support ANU in showing national leadership in the sector, through engagement with effective professionalisation of the ANU teaching and learning workforce.
Professional Standards Framework 2023
Advance HE, previously known as the Higher Education Academy or HEA, is an independent non-profit organisation committed to world-class teaching in higher education. It works in partnership with institutions and individuals in higher education supporting student success. Advance HE brings the sector together to collaborate, and share teaching strategies and practice, and currently has over 180,000 fellows around the world, with more than 6,000 of those in Australia. Since being introduced to ANU in late 2013, the ANU EFS has awarded more than 600 HEA fellowships to ANU staff, and more than 250 to staff from external universities.
The Professional Standards Framework 2023 (PSF 2023) is a globally-recognised framework for benchmarking success within higher education teaching and learning support. Advance HE, the custodians of the Framework, have phased out PSF 2011, and ANU is now making the transition to the revised version, PSF 2023. All applicants starting from August 2024 onwards will be using PSF 2023.
PSF 2023 builds on the strengths of PSF 2011 while placing much more overt emphasis on:
- the effectiveness and impact of teaching and/or learning support;
- the context in which the teaching and/or learning support takes place;
- inclusivity – both from the perspective of the wider range of staff now able to engage with the PSF and how more inclusive approaches ensure all learners feel respected, valued and have equity in opportunity to succeed.
If you wish to learn more about PSF 2023, you can download and read the PSF 2023 guide (opens the Advance HE website, where you can download the guide).