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The Qatar Education City’s students have teamed up to establish a charity organisation in an effort to contribute to the country’s community needs. The student-run charity Al Kawthar was named after the river in paradise to symbolise an overflowing of generosity.

A prestigious American university targeting aspiring diplomats has opened its first Gulf campus in Qatar.

The Qatar Foundation will start the internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language to Qatar from next March.

The Qatar Leadership Academy (QLA), to be located in a new campus in the Al Khor area, north of Doha, has been established under a partnership between the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and Qatar’s armed forces.

Carnegie Mellon University is now offering full-time, co-educational, undergraduate degrees in business administration and computer science in Qatar.

Qatar will establish the first regional training college for firefighters. The government has approved a plan to set up the college in the country.

Tasmeem 2005 held recently in Qatar brought students in the region together with international design gurus.