Recent Work

Advancing Higher Education for Afghanistan’s Development (2021-2025)

CIE workiong on the Advancing Higher Education for Afghanistan’s Development (AHEAD) that seeks to improve the quality and relevance of tertiary education by strengthening linkages to public and private sector employability.

 

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First Graduates from Business Accounting at Balkh University

Twenty students including two women graduated from the first Business Accounting Associate Degree program at Balkh University in Afghanistan. Almost immediately, 15 of the 20 found employmnet.

 

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CIE begins new Health Education project in Afghanistan

CIE will implement an accelerated literacy and numeracy program for young women preparing to work in health sector, using materials and methods developed under CIE's previous Learning for Life project.

 

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Afghan BMET Graduates Construct a Ventilator to Fight Covid-19

Two graduates of Biomedical Equipment Technology Associate Degree program at Kabul University Medical School designed and constructed a low-cost ventilator using locally available materials.

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First Cohort Graduates from a New Associate Degree in Afghanistan

In February 2020, the first cohort of students from the new Associate Degree in Business Administration graduated from Nangarhar University in Jalalabad. The group of 26 graduates included seven women.

 

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CIE Completes 5 Years of Work with ECCN (2014-2019)

For the past five years, under the leadership of Ash Hartwell (left with Gwen Heaner), CIE as a sub-contractor to EDC has had primary responsibility for developing research and evaluation activities with the Education in Crisis and Conflict Network.

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Afghanistan University Support & Workforce Development Program (2014-2019)

The Center for International Education (CIE) at UMass Amherst is completing five years of work with the higher education system in Afghanistan as the lead technical partner under FHI 360 as part of USAID’s third largest higher education project in the world - University Support and Workforce Development program (USWDP).

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Master’s Degree in Education – A Decade of Success

The 8th cohort of the Master’s in Education (M.Ed.) program graduated on September 13, 2018 from Shaheed Rabbani Education University (SREU) in Kabul. This cohort of 24 students consisted of four women and 20 men, all of whom are faculty members at Afghan public universities.

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Career Centers in Afghanistan Help Students Prepare for Employment

CIE is working with the USWDP project in Afghanistan to create Career Centers in 11 public universities to build linkages between university education and employment opportunities in local firms.

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New partnership works to offer associate degrees in business in Afghanistan

The Center for International Education (CIE) hosted a meeting in Montague House to jumpstart a new partnership between the College of Education, the Universities of Herat, Balkh and Nangahar in Afghanistan, and faculty from Greenfield and Holyoke Community Colleges.

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