About Center for Continuing Education at Birzeit University

Our Business and Entrepreneurship (a.k.a Business Hub) was established in 2017 through the support of the European Union. It is an innovation space within the Center at Birzeit University designed to nurture ideas and creativity and provide an environment which is conducive to creating new businesses or developing existing ones. We work with potential entrepreneurs to develop and turn their business ideas into successful commercial ventures, and also work with Small and Medium size Entity’s (SMEs) to assess their business models, review their operation and production processes, re-think their marketing strategy, among other services.

We provide our consulting services to two groups: Start-ups, and established businesses.

Our Professional Education Team recruits the best in class professors and training consultants from inside and outside the University to develop Continuing Education Courses, Diplomas, and Programs in response to the current and local needs. We excel in providing creative ways for users to learn new skills and gain pivotal  knowledge, we develop people and their capacities to manage and administer organizations, public institutions, and businesses alike, we combine face-to-face learning with online, we have courses in two languages English and Arabic, we provide several pathways for our learners: Diplomas, Courses, and other educational Programs.

Recognizing the rapidly increasing demands in educational outcomes, and the more-than-ever reliance of the future of people and societies on the quality of their education, considering that the local educational systems are lagging, our Education Transformation Unit, “Unit for Learning Innovation” works with Educators, Educational Institutions, Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Ministries of Education to lobby, discuss, engage, and develop transformative educational models, both formal and non-formal specific to the local context.

In doing so, we provide the following services among others:

• Capacity development in educational system
• Curricula design
• Research and development of learning models,
• Assessment of educational systems and curriculum,
• Content development,
• Establishing educational monitoring and evaluation,
• Training in curricula and e-curricula,
• Drama in teaching and learning,
• Content development,
• Monitoring and assessment,
• Model development,
• Development of learning objects, comprehensive models that fit the local and regional content.