Doha: The Excelligent, an international magazine specialised in the field of education, has chosen the Qatar Olympic Academy (QOA) as the best educational centre in the State of Qatar for the year 2021.
This selection is based on the magazine’s monitoring of the activity and educational movement of academies and educational centres in the State of Qatar, where the Qatar Olympic Academy, with its diverse activities, programmes and courses that include many sports, administrative and technical fields, has been able to reach all segments of Qatari, Gulf and Arab society, in addition to many European and American countries.
It introduced the simultaneous translation system into its programmes that it provided with the distance learning system, as the Academy had moved to the distance education system through its use of Microsoft Teams and Zoom with the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in March of last year.
The Qatar Olympic Academy has developed its programmes and courses to suit distance education since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the Academy adopted a calendar this year that includes many programmes, courses and workshops in various sports and Olympic fields, which exceeded twenty different programmes and courses, whether at the level of workshops Olympic education or various courses as well as postgraduate studies in cooperation with a number of international and regional bodies, in addition to cooperation with many state institutions and ministries to provide special courses for their employees within the framework of joint cooperation to reach common goals and reach the public benefit.
Executive Director of the Qatar Olympic Academy, Saif Mohammed Al Nuaimi, stressed that selection of the Qatar Olympic Academy by The Excelligent International magazine as the best educational center in the State of Qatar for the year 2021 comes as a result of the concerted efforts of the work teams in the academy who always strive for the best, as well as partners from International, continental and local bodies, as well as the lecturers who contributed greatly to gaining the confidence of the students.
He added: “The Qatar Olympic Academy always seeks to reach all segments of the local community, especially the Arab and international community in general, through diversity in the programmes, courses and workshops that serve the sports community administratively and technically, in order to achieve one of the most important goals of the academy, which is to spread the sports and Olympic culture among societies.”