Education
Compass students to swim to raise awareness on Unesco goal
Compass International School Doha (Compass) students will take part in a swimming challenge to swim across Qatar from November 3 to 7. Believed to be the first swimming challenge of-its-kind in Qatar, students at the school’s Gharaffa campus will swim 90,000 metres or 6,429 lengths of the school pool to [...]
Compass students achieve highest marks in Qatar
Compass International School Doha (Compass) is delighted to announce that two students have been awarded ‘Top in Qatar’ by Cambridge International Education for the highest mark in Qatar for IGCSE subjects. Noemi Pajak-Grigorean achieved the highest mark in Qatar in the Art and Design IGCSE and Ada Egilmez was the [...]
Italian Language Week begins at Qatar National Library
With the theme “The Italian Language on Stage,” the 19th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World kicked off yesterday at the Qatar National Library (QNL) with a lecture on the evolution of Italian opera by prominent Italian conductor and concert performer Maestro Adriano Bassi. Maestro [...]
Acid attack victim’s inspirational story opens student-led Qatar conference
The Qatar Leadership Conference 2019 at QF has brought together 900 globally-focused students from 16 countries. Hundreds of young leaders from schools in 16 countries have converged on Qatar Foundation for the region’s largest student-driven leadership summit – where they have heard the haunting but inspiring story of an acid [...]
Math lessons go beyond numbers
Is Seattle really teaching that “math is racist”? Why did parents start to see ideas for math lessons that go far beyond numbers and into questions of identity? These and other questions erupted on Twitter, shortly after Seattle Public Schools released a draft of new learning objectives that integrate ethnic [...]
Sherborne Qatar pupils galvanise audience at choir music event
Music has an international language and it can give messages in a positive way. The power of music is something to be reckoned with especially nowadays when different cultures come together for events more frequently than ever before. The positive side of music and talent of young singers was recently [...]