Qatar Foundation institutions will participate in the QF/UK Road Ahead Forum to be held on Monday 19 January at King’s College London. Qatar Foundation institutions will participate in the QF/UK Road Ahead Forum to be held on Monday 19 January at King’s College London. Haya H Al Muhannadi / Monday, January 19, 2015 0 17324 Institutions of the Qatar Foundation will visit the UK shortly to participate in the Qatar Foundation/United Kingdom Road Ahead Forum to be held on Monday 19 January at King’s College London. The Forum implements a Memorandum of Understanding on Research and Education signed by the Qatar Foundation and its United Kingdom partners (The Department for Business Innovation & Skills, The British Council and Universities UK International Unit) in September 2013, and is one of a number of activities designed to develop closer links between the Qatar Foundation and the UK. Read more
Call for more Qatari health professionals Call for more Qatari health professionals Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 16461 Qatar needs to produce more Qatari health professionals to create an efficient health workforce, Dr Victor Dzau, an official of a US-based medical institute, has said. “My understanding is that out of 8,000 nurses, only 300 are Qataris,” he noted. He was speaking at the Innovations in Global Medical and Health Education (IGMHE) forum in Doha yesterday. Read more
CMUQ appoints two more associate deans CMUQ appoints two more associate deans Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 17327 Kemal Oflazer and Selma Limam-Mansar have been appointed associate dean of research and associate dean of education, respectively, at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ). A faculty member in computer science at CMUQ, Oflazer obtained his doctorate in computer science from CMU. Specialising in the area of natural language processing (NLP), he is an active member of the research community and has widely published his work in journals and at conferences. Read more
QF team in UK to forge closer links Haya H Al Muhannadi / Sunday, January 18, 2015 0 15797 Officials from Qatar Foundation institutions are in the UK to participate in the “QF/UK Road Ahead Forum” to be held today at King’s College London. The forum implements a memorandum of understanding on research and education signed in September 2013 by QF and its UK partners: the Department for Business Innovation & Skills, the British Council, and Universities UK International Unit. Read more
Early Career Research Award Haya H Al Muhannadi / 1/7/2015 0 14132 On Wednesday, January 7th, QNRF will hold a presentation on the proposed ECRA (Early Career Research Award) initiative. location, Tornado Tower 5th floor Read more
Northwestern University media survey this month Northwestern University media survey this month Anonym / Tuesday, January 6, 2015 0 15578 Northwestern University Qatar has announced that fieldwork for its third annual media use survey will begin this month.The study, a recipient of a National Priorities Research Program award from the Qatar National Research Fund, will provide new insights into people’s use of and attitudes toward media. Read more