AFGHANISTAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM STUDIES(AICTS)

Afghanistan Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism studies is the only institute of its academic nature, which was registered in 1388 (2009) with Ministry of cultural and information. It is the first Institute of its nature in Afghanistan encompassing activities of cultural heritage and ravel and tourism studies in its curriculum. The curriculum of the institute will be certified by the faculty of social sciences of Kabul University and will be inline with the curriculum of international universities and study centers.
The institute will register the 12th class graduate in the field of culture heritage and tourism and will provide them training for two consecutive years. The students will be tested according to the requirement of HE (higher education) and passing criteria will be 75% marks in the final exams in each study subject.
The student after qualifying the 2nd year of their exams will be awarded 14th grade certificate (Shahadat Nama) and they will be eligible to join the 3rd year (5th semester) of the Kabul university faculty of social science.

MOU WITH KABUL UNIVERSITY AND FUTURE COORDINATION:

A MOU with the University of Kabul has already been signed, in which Kabul University agreed to enroll the institute students after their completion of two years study with the AICTS. The MOU also provide the mechanism for future coordination between Kabul University and the institute.
The institute and the Kabul University also agreed to provide technical support to each other in some areas, which is needed, to any party of the MOU.
The institute will be working in complete harmonization with the management of the Kabul University. The curriculum will be according to the HE (Higher Education) requirement and will be approved from the Kabul faculty of social science . After finalizing its student for the regular class, the institute will  share the list of the enrolled student with the Kabul University. All these actions will be taken to synchronize the activities with the universities activities.

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE INSTITUTE:

One of the big advantage of the institute is its capable, professional and highly qualified founder team .Being an experienced team it is well capable to implement an education and capacity building project of any magnitude.
Institute will develop three boards to manage and control the internal and external activities of the institute.
1          Academic Board
2.         Administration Board
3.         Board of External Relations and Liaison.
Academic board
The Academic Board will consist of 16 members. The board members will be independent and will change regularly (every three years).
Tasks of academic board
1.      Academic board will prepare short and long term strategic plans for the development of the institution.
2.      Academic board will prepare and arrange and facilitate academic programs like curriculum development, arrangement of seminars, workshop, short and long term trainings and monitoring the follow up activities.
3.      Academic board will arrange six monthly and annual meetings of the institution and will takes necessary decisions in the meeting with mutual consent.
4.      Academic board will plan for the curriculum development of the institution at international standard and will take practical steps for its implementation.
5.      Academic board plays a role of co ordination between the institution and other organizations in the academic issues.
6.      Academic board will meet twice a year and if necessary it can call an emergency meeting to decide urgent and strategic issues of the institute.
7.      In the period between its annual and six monthly meetings, Academic board will hand over its authority to a sub committee, to cope the routine issues of the institute.
8.      A member of the Academic board can leave the board by giving a three months prior notice to the board chairman.
9.      The Academic Board can terminate a membership of a board member if he is not following the constitution of the institute.
 

THE MEMBER OF ACADEMIC BOARD

The board will consist of 17 members and will consist of
1.      Professor R.Bawary                                Chairman
2.      Safia Halim                                            Advisor                                                   
3.      Professor Nabi Farahy                           Member
4.      Zarian, Anzur                                          Member
5.      Dr. Qader wadan                                    Member
6.      Dr. Khushal Rohy                                   Member
7.      Ab. Ghafor Liwal                                   Member
8.      Professor,Rahmat. Zewakman               Member
9.      Professor Habib zai                                Member
10.  Professor Zulmay Hotak                       Member
11.  Professor K. Bahar                                Member
12.  Professor.E.Yoon                                  Member
13.Omarakhan Masodi                                  Member
14.  Dr. Farooq ansary                                  Member
15.  Haji Mahmmad Jan Bawary                  Member                   
16.  Admin Head                                          Member
17.  Student Liason Officer                          Member
18.  Head Accountant                                   Member
19.  Tourisim Dpt. Head                                 Member
 

BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION (EXECUTIVE BOARD)

The board members will be experienced individuals having sufficient experience in the management of universities and institutes like AICTS. Following will the
members of administration board

1.      Head of the Institute                          Member
2.      consultant of Institute                         Member
3.      Academic Assistant of Institute         Member
4.      Admin Officer of Institute                 Member
5.      Chief Accountant of Institute                        Member
6.      Heads of six Departments                  Member
7.      Accountant of Executive Board         Member
Functions of Executive Board 
1.      Develop and implement strategic plan for the institute management and administration.
2.      To management the daily activities of the institution
3.      To prepare and manage the educational programs of the institution
4.      To develop the learning material for students and teachers
5.      To provide job placement to the institute students
6.      Management of Finance
7.       Develop financial, logistic and transportation plan and its implementation.
8.      Monitoring the institute disciplinary and ethical issues.
9.      Students Management, teacher’s management, coordination with higher education and other stakeholders.

BOARD OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND LIAISON

Purpose of the Board
The board will be involved in the representing the institute in national and international forum. They will develop good relationship with the national and international stakeholders specially with the government official, travel and tourism industry and international donor organizations. The board will coordinate with the international universities and will seek their assistance in the technical issues, especially in developing the standards for the heritage and tourism studies and conducting special consultancies in Afghanistan.
The board will be responsible to create a good image of the institute in the government floor and in international forums. The board member will also design strategies to place the institute graduates in a unique position and ensure their proper utilization in the national economy.

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