Announcement

Masters in Public Policy and Administration Students Defend Their Theses

The MPPA is one of three graduate degrees offered at Kabul Universiy.

Kabul, Afghanistan  | Friday, July 31, 2009

Photo: USAID/AeQA

An MPPA student defends his thesis.

During the final week of May, four students from the first cohort of the Kabul University (KU) Masters in Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) program successfully defend their theses.  The students were nominated by their employers – nearly all Afghan governmental organizations – to participate in the MPPA program, one of only three graduate degrees offered at KU after a 30-year interruption in graduate degree-granting programs.

The oral defense, in front of the three-member thesis committee, KU staff and faculty, USAID staff, and fellow students, was the culmination of an 18-month process.  “I will always be grateful to USAID…for this opportunity to advance, not only myself, but my country by being so much better-prepared to fulfill my job obligations at the Civil Service Institute,” said one successful candidate. Additional students from this cohort are expected to complete and defend their theses in the next several months, followed by a graduation ceremony.