Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation, celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2020 and 2021 yesterday, and the event witnessed the 1,000th graduate mark in the 10th year since the institution’s founding.
25 May 2021 - 8:14
The Peninsula
As the COVID-19 pandemic challenges the existing education model, deans across six colleges at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) believe that the new graduates of the university are skilled to handle real-world challenges.
Founding Dean of the College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS) at HBKU, Dr. Edward Stuenkel, said that as the world continues to be challenged by a pandemic, graduates’ acquired skills and knowledge allow them to have a positive impact on the health of communities worldwide.
“They leave CHLS equipped to confront current and future health threats, whether pursuing scientific discovery within research laboratories or careers in any aspect of the biomedical and healthcare sector. We are very proud of our graduates and wish them well,” he said.
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HBKU’s CPP discusses need to strengthen Arab families amid pandemic
10 Apr 2021 - 9:53
The Peninsula
Doha: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on families, women, and children in the Arab region was the focus of an online seminar jointly organised by Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)’s College of Public Policy (CPP), the College of Education at Sultan Qaboos University, and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Kuwait University.
Academics, researchers, and advocates of family and children’s issues from Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt discussed the findings of data collected in 20 Arab countries under the global ‘COVID-19 Family Life Research Study’ initiated at CPP and carried out between March and October 2020. The cross-cultural study surveyed families in 72 countries to examine the challenges they faced during the pandemic. The seminar’s expert panel highlighted striking aspects of the study pertaining to different r