DOHA: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education organised an induction meeting for students wishing to study in the United Kingdom for the academic year 2018-2019, in partnership with the British Council.
It was in the presence of officials from the Higher Education Authority, Scholarship Office, Ministry’s Guidance Office, British Council and a number of students and parents.
The meeting aimed to introduce students to the British universities and their advantages, explain the guidance they need to know before leaving, and introduce the academic climate, the cultural and social nature of British society and the cost of living, in addition to other topics of interest to the students wishing to study at British universities, or those accepted recently to study there.
Scholarship and University Guidance Adviser, Saleh Al Muftah, shed light on the most important conditions of the internal and external scholarships, the conditions of scholarship for learning the language, and the stages of applying for a scholarship from the ministry.
For his part, Director of Scholarship Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ali Al Buainain, said that such annual meetings for Qatari students wishing to travel abroad are held in coordination with the British Council because the UK receives the largest percentage of the Qatari students who have scholarships to study abroad.
The students and their parents raised many questions and queries which were answered by British Council officials and officials of the Higher Education Authority.
On the sidelines of the meeting, an exhibition of British universities was held to introduce new specializations that are not found in Qatar, such as fire engineering and other specialized and modern disciplines in technology.
The list of universities approved for scholarships by Qatar’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education includes more than 135 British universities, in which many Qatari students study at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate levels.
