According to Francisco Marmolejo, president of higher education at the Qatar Foundation, 282 students living in the dorms were relocated for one night to hotels and other housing facilities before returning the next day. “We live in an extraordinary moment in Qatar, as you can imagine, but … there has been an amazing coordination among all the universities in, first of all, minimizing the risk of the students and, secondly, in assuring the continuity of education by online means and also doing the adaptations that are needed in terms of assessment and everything else,” Marmolejo said. “All the universities have been providing the flexibility for people who decide to leave the country on a temporary basis, with the assumption, of course, that they will come back when the situation becomes more normal.
Author: Johanna Alonso
Published at: 2026-03-15 22:52:11
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