USAID/Afghanistan Higher Education Project (HED)

Afghanistan is located in central Asia and bounded by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Pakistan, and Iran.  Its history dates back to the empires of Persia and Alexander the Great. Today the country is a republic with Kabul as its capital.

The USAID Afghanistan Higher Education Project's strategic objective is to rehabilitate and strengthen the capacity of the education system by focusing on improved teaching and capacity building at the tertiary level resulting in improved quality pre-service and in-service teacher education for secondary school teachers.

Indiana University's Center for Social Studies and International Education is providing leadership for a 5 year program to design a master's degree program for those who will have key roles in developing the capacity of Afghan universities to both train their own education faculty and train secondary school teachers.  Cohorts of Afghan higher education faculty will study at Indiana University to earn a master's degree in education.  The faculty will earn degrees in language education with an emphasis in English as a second language instruction.

Dr. Terrence Mason, director of the Center for Social Studies and International Education and associate professor of education, heads the project. Dr. Mitzi Lewison, associate professor of language education at Indiana University, coordinates the curriculum for the master's degree program and oversees student academic progress.

URL for the USAID/Afghanistan Higher Education Project

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov/en/Activity.48.aspx