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Leaving ‘Hogwarts Express’ trains behind, Qatar Foundation contracts $123m high-tech trams

Testing, testing. In preparation for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar Foundation is contracting German engineering company Siemens to install an energy-efficient tram system, the company has announced. The $123 million deal…

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Qatar Foundation ties up with Harvard’s IGLP to develop a new local law school

Qatar Foundation ties up with Harvard’s IGLP to develop a new local law school Qatar Foundation has announced a new partnership with Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP)…

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Amal Almalki: A Qatari woman’s path to success

Dr. Amal Almalki is the only Qatari faculty member in Education City, a cluster of international, renowned universities and institutions. As a Qatari woman, Almalki has overcome expectations and stereotypes…

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Educators: Scarcity of libraries contributes to Qatar’s lack of reading culture

Educators: Scarcity of libraries contributes to Qatar’s lack of reading culture The Peninsula reports: While the sales of tablet computers and smartphones continue to rise in Qatar, the few libraries…

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Starting from scratch: Coaching women’s basketball in Qatar

Starting from scratch: Coaching women’s basketball in Qatar Coaching college basketball in Qatar to young, primarily Arab women with little to no experience may sound like mission impossible, but former…

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Northwestern University in Qatar breaks ground on new building

The state-of-the-art facility will serve as the permanent home of NU-Q.

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Qatar Foundation: Yesterday’s bomb threat at Education City was a hoax

Qatar Foundation: Yesterday’s bomb threat at Education City was a hoax Following yesterday’s news that a bomb threat had been made at the Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon campuses in…

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Economist: GCC’s Western universities “at risk of failing”

Western universities located in the GCC are “at risk of failing,” says an economist who is studying and has written a research paper about higher education institutes in the region.…

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Fewer Qataris getting into college, more dropping out

Fewer Qataris are getting into college, and more of those who do are dropping out, according to the country’s five-year National Plan, which was released this week. Qatar has world-class higher education…

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