Birzeit, 5 April , 2000
Birzeit University recently signed an agreement with CISCO Systems Inc. to become the CISCO Regional Networking Academy in the Palestinian Authority Areas. On Tuesday April 4th,  Mr. Bob Lewis,  Program Development Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa for the CISCO Networking Academies Program, gave a presentation on the program at Birzeit University. 

Cisco's Curriculum

Cisco Systems is a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Cisco's networking solutions connect people, computing devices and computer networks, allowing people to access or transfer information without regard to differences in time, place or type of computer system.

The CISCO Networking Academies program teaches university, college, and high school students the skills they need to design, build, and maintain computer networks.  See http://www.cisco.com/edu/emea/academy for more details.

Please contact Marwan Tarazi, Director of the IT Unit at Birzeit University, for more information about the program at Birzeit.