Building Institutional Strength in Higher Education

Academics for Higher Education and Development’s (AHED) mission is to support developing countries build and expand institutional strength in higher education. It fulfills its mission by sending volunteers to work on projects in the full range of post-secondary institutions – in universities, colleges, and professional and technical schools – and in all areas of instruction including among others, humanities, pure and applied science, engineering, business administration, medicine and nursing.

Projects

AHED has current projects at the State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and at the University of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia. It has completed a project at the University of Liberia and shall have another project there this summer. AHED welcomes suggestions about projects.

Volunteer Abroad

AHED welcomes applications from working and retired faculty, staff, and administrators of universities and colleges throughout the world, as well as non–academic professionals who wish to volunteer for our capacity building projects. All expenses of our volunteers are covered.

Current Placements

Registrar’s Office
National University of Rwanda
Butare, Rwanda
Six Months (Can be broken up into several stays)
Job Description

If you wish to submit an application for our data base, please fill out an application and we shall put it on file and notify you when a placement becomes available for someone with your qualifications.  Before doing so, would you please consult our pages for the qualifications  necessary to volunteers for AHED placements.

We welcome inquiries and suggestions from prospective volunteers about possible projects. Please contact us at inquiry ( at ) ahed-upesed.org.

Read more “About” AHED

AHED is a bi-lingual non-governmental organization, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,  incorporated in March 2007 and registered in Canada as a charity.  No. 855102588RR0001.

AHED’s 2009 Annual Report and Financial Statement are now available.