Navigating a career in tertiary education management in an era of unceasing transformation

Abstract

As we consider the focus and content for this special issue about practice-led research by tertiary education (TE) managers, we take the opportunity to reflect upon some of the broader settings affecting these endeavours, as well as development of the people who undertake this work as a career. Indeed, if enough of the many thousands of people who do TE management think of this as a profession – and if you are reading this editorial then chances are this is so – then some discussion about signifiers of a maturing profession for TE management is necessary too.