Your Account

When you join this site you create an Account - essentially nothing more than your username, an email address and a password (which you create later - see How do I register, create and edit my Profile?).

Your Account:

• allows you to subscribe to the newsletter;
• makes it easier to comment on articles than if you comment anonymously;
• allows you to create a Public Profile (next), which in turn allows you to submit content to the site, like News articles, Partner Search profiles, etc.

You apply for an account by filling in the 'Join' form (top left). Your Account is then approved by the Edulink Programme Management Unit (PMU).

Note: If you created a profile on the previous version of this site, your account and profile was migrated across. You would have received an email explaining how to reset your password. If you cannot find this email, check your spam filter, and then use the contact form.

Your Public Profile

Your Public Profile is your page on this site:

• use it to can tell the community about yourself and where you work, provide a photograph, etc;
• it will link to everything you contribute to the site: news articles, Partner Search profiles, article comments, etc.
• and these links are two-way: your contributions also link back to your Profile, so other visitors can follow your conversations across the site easily.

You can provide most of this information when you initially fill out the 'Join' form if you wish, but it will not go Public at that point, as your Account need to be approved first.

Once it is approved, you can edit your Profile simply by logging in.

It will not be public unless you check the appropriate checkbox.

More details: see FAQ: How do I register, create and edit my Profile?