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Welcome! Our site features the work of our blog abroad correspondents and has everything you need to know about our study abroad programs!
Welcome! Our site features the work of our blog abroad correspondents and has everything you need to know about our study abroad programs!
Before you leave on your program, you’ll be working almost entirely with Amideast Education Abroad’s U.S.-based team. Why?
Developing programs is a labor intensive process. Education Abroad staff and faculty outside the U.S. need to be engaged first and foremost with participants they have on the ground. Amideast programs are in session almost 365 days/year.
The financial, legal, and administrative nuts and bolts of all Amideast programs—budgets, contracts, policies and procedures, reporting—are rooted in the U.S. office.
We are professionals—smart, experienced, and have been doing this for a long time. You can read more about us here.
Whatever impact procurement procedures at your institution have on your timeline and process, it likewise has on us. We’re in it together, and have to plan accordingly.
Providers can’t spit-ball costs. Budgets need time and are developed carefully. They can’t be developed without a detailed itinerary. We love helping you develop your itinerary, and we are happy to tweak itineraries and budgets as necessary until we arrive a program that meets your needs.
As a general rule, countries like Morocco and Tunisia are less expensive than countries like Jordan or the UAE. Don’t let that deter you from planning a program in one country versus another—we can suggest ways to minimize costs. Minimizing costs may require scaling back on some aspects of your program, especially those that have less impact on your objectives, goals, and outcomes.
Everyone—student participants, faculty leaders, non-faculty guests (i.e. student or faculty partners and dependents, interpreters or caregivers accompanying participants, etc.)—must sign a standard liability waiver as a condition of the program. Sometimes things happen beyond anyone’s control, and sometimes people on a program make poor decisions or act contrary to Amideast’s policies or advice. Liability waivers protect everyone, and Amideast deserves the same protections as participants.
Do you already have a few ideas? Or maybe you don’t yet, but you know that all this is sounding interesting? Read on to learn more about how to get started.