CCQ Begins

CCQ Begins

Saturday, November 13, 2010

CCQ Press Conference

CCQ courses ‘recognised world over’

By Ourouba Hussein



Dean Hansen and steering committee chair Ibrahim Saleh al-Nuaimi at the press briefing yesterday

The newly-established Community College of Qatar’s (CCQ) courses are internationally certified and will allow the students to join any university in Qatar or abroad to complete their bachelor degrees, a top CCQ official said yesterday.

Speaking to reporters, CCQ steering committee chair Ibrahim Saleh al-Nuaimi said that the college had three different programmes, an Associate in Sciences or Associate in Arts degree, Associate in Applied Sciences, as well as Work Advancement or Employment and Certificates or courses for training and personal development.

He explained that after obtaining the Associate in Science degree, students can further study to obtain their Associate in Applied Sciences degree, which now offered business and computer technology programmes.

“The associate in science or arts degree allows the students to register in any university in the world as a third year, while the associate in applied sciences degree allows them to go directly to work”, he said.

The third programme, he said, offered courses for employers to provide upgrading or improving the skills of their employees, or re-train for a totally different field.

“We are talking to Qatar Petroleum and RasGas and we will be visiting in October all corporations in Qatar to offer our services”, he added.

CCQ dean Judith Hansen said that the college was the outcome of two years of work to establish a place to improve the Qatari participation in the workforce to reach the 2030 vision.

“The college officially opened its doors for orientation last Sunday and the classes started on September 26”, she stated.

She explained that CCQ has begun its first academic year with 305 students.

“A total of 1,330 candidates had taken the placement test but two-thirds of them preferred afternoon and evening courses”, she said, adding “in January we are going to launch evening classes for the working students and we still have another 2,000 students on the waiting list, who still haven’t taken the placement test and need some orientation”.

Hansen explained that the college was accepting only Qatari students, however, the future plan was to include non-Qataris also.

“What is good about CCQ is that we have small classes, a comfortable personal relationship with professors, whereas every class has an average of 20 students, so they have an opportunity to learn”, she said.

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