About Center for Continuing Education at Birzeit University

graduation at CCE

Center for Continuing Education

A dynamic and responsive center constantly engaged in exploration and innovation

The Center for Continuing Education (CCE) was established in 1991 as a community outreach program arm of Birzeit University in Palestine. Although we are part of the University organizational structure and we have access to the wealth of resources the University has to offer, yet we are not bound by the academic structures of the University, which has positioned us as a dynamic and responsive center constantly engaged in exploration and innovation - able to adapt quickly and respond to the quickly changing landscape on the ground. We focus on four parallel strategic programs and services.

Our Programs and Services

Community Development Seminar
Community Development

Community Development Program

Contributing to regeneration of local communities through building human capital capable to lead for wellbeing.

Key pillars of our community-development approach are community empowerment, local government empowerment, accountability, transparency and learning by doing. With these pillars in place, CCE’s community interventions create sustainable and wide-ranging impacts by mobilizing communities and giving them tools to become agents of their own development.

 

Staff of CCE
Our People

Operational Excellence

CCE prides itself on operational excellence, which can be directly attributed to our highly competent and diverse human resources who are passionate about the work they do.

Army of Experts

We employ more than 100 professionals between employees and consultants. We work hard to ensure we recruit the right person for the right job. 

University Professors

In addition, the Center has access to many of high calibre faculty professor and staff working at Birzeit University.

Our employees and the consultants we work with are specialized in different areas including education, curriculum design, entrepreneurship private sector development, community and organizational development, poverty reduction, women and youth economic empowerment, gender equality and social inclusion, management, finance and public administration, monitoring and evaluation, information technology, psycho-social and other related fields. The pool of local and international consultants are recruited for projects on needs basis and they are committed to CCE and its values.

CCE Management Team

مدير مركز التعليم المستمر
التقارير السنوية

بيان لجنة التعليم المستمر

بشأن الشفافية والمساءلة

يعمل مركز التعليم المستمر بجامعة بيرزيت بطريقة شفافة للغاية وخاضعة للمساءلة. تتم عملية صنع القرار داخل المركز بطريقة تشاركية (من خلال فريق الإدارة) ، وبالتشاور الوثيق مع الموظفين. يوفر نظام إدارة المعرفة جميع المعلومات ذات الصلة حول جميع عمليات المركز في الوصول إلى جميع أصحاب المصلحة المعنيين. كجزء من جامعة بيرزيت ، تتوفر التقارير المالية المدققة واللوائح واللوائح الداخلية للجمهور.

المركز هو أحد الوحدات الإرشادية في جامعة بيرزيت ، وهي تدير عملياتها وفقًا لسياسات وإجراءات جامعة بيرزيت. لدى جامعة بيرزيت إجراءات راسخة لإدارة الموارد البشرية والمشتريات والإدارة المالية. وتستند هذه الإجراءات إلى مجموعة من المعايير وأفضل الممارسات الوطنية والدولية ذات الصلة. يتم دعم العمليات اليومية لهذه الوظائف الثلاث من خلال نظام معلومات إدارة محوسب متكامل ، والذي يوفر أداءً فعالاً وفعالاً وشفافاً.

علاوة على ذلك ، طور المركز نظام ضمان الجودة المتكامل للحفاظ على العمليات والكفاءة وتلبية احتياجات العملاء. يتكيف هذا النظام مع محتوى كل مشروع ويؤكد - ليس فقط تحقيق الأهداف والغايات والنتائج - ولكن أيضًا أن العملاء والمستشارين والمؤسسات المهنية يحتفظون بتذكار إيجابي ويستفيدون من التجربة. الهدف هو تحقيق نتائج ممتازة ، لا أقل ، من المشاريع. يجب تعميم المعلومات بشكل صحيح على جميع المشاركين ويتم تنفيذ الخطوات بما يرضي جميع الأطراف المعنية.

We design, develop, test, scale, and implement the dissemination of innovative, successful, and localized models and methodologies that generate best possible results in the local fragile context through supporting the growth of our educational sector, businesses, governmental Institutions, non-governmental, and community-based organizations across Palestine, with a special focus on those that are rurally based, youth-focused, and female-managed.

Our mandate is not limited to the external community. CCE is also engaged in extra and co-curricular programs within the University community that serve to empower students and also link them with the community outside.

All the Center’s units partner with international donors to bring their services to a wider community and beneficiaries. Explore our Current Projects.

 

Our Mission, Vision, and Values

 

Our Mission

Our Vision

​​​​​Our mission is to empower institutions and local communities to make a positive difference in Palestine.

To unlock the full potential of Palestinian institutions and communities for them to use their own talents, experience and collective energy to design and deliver initiatives that make positive change happen.

Our Values

Innovation in Developing Projects and Programs

Continuous Learning for everyone

Empowerment of youth and women in their societies

Work that is Relevant to the local context and the Future of work

Life Skills, Citizenship, and Participation Education

Technology as an effective enabler in development

Community Development

Social Inclusion for everyone

Teamwork

Economic Empowerment through Enterprising and Entrepreneurship

Educational Reform: Lifelong and Rights-based, Gender Responsive Transformative Educational Models