Education
Chesapeake elementary teacher reads bedtime stories to students over Facebook Live
Ms. Yearby grabs a seat at a desk in a spare bedroom inside her apartment, props herself up in front of a Macbook computer and logs onto Facebook. It’s time for another night of her reading adventures. Over the next half hour, Keisha Yearby will work through Tom Percival’s “Perfectly [...]
TASMU Smart Qatar Program unites technologically advanced youth to celebrate Techies Day
TASMU Smart Qatar Program, a flagship program by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC), has celebrated this year’s Techies Day by hosting a group of technologically advanced youth in MoTC’s premises. Techies Day, which takes place every 3rd of October, aims to promote careers in technology among young people. [...]
Classes without textbooks? More colleges giving it a try.
When Natalie Flynn surveyed students in her Temple University intro to physical geology classes, she found half weren’t buying the textbook she used. Many couldn’t afford it. “We were developing a very, very uneven playing field in the classroom,” she said. That’s when Flynn decided to phase out print textbooks [...]
Qatar Finance and Business Academy in collaboration with Northumbria University concluded its Orientation Week for new students
With the commencement of a new academic year, Qatar Finance & Business Academy in collaboration with Northumbria University Newcastle successfully concluded its orientation week over a 4-day period to facilitate a positive transition for its new incoming students. Orientation week signifies the first step towards a successful academic year for [...]
NU-Q inducts largest class with 122 students
Charles Whitaker, the newly appointed Dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communication in the US, spoke at the ceremony where faculty and administrators were clad in colourful academic regalia as NU-Q began its 12th year of operations in Education City. Attending were members of the [...]
Texas A&M at Qatar hosts QAST students in STEM Hub
Source: Peninsula Qatar Incoming students from the Qatar Academy for Science & Technology (QAST) spent part of their first week of school working at Texas A&M University at Qatar in its STEM Hub, which is funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Eleven 10th grade students learned [...]