Doha College’s Head boy, Azan Ahmed and Head girl, Nora Al Naemi, attended the COBIS Student Leadership Conference at King's College Madrid, Spain last weekend and were the only school represented at this conference from Qatar. The conference provides leadership training and develops life skills for students coming to the end of their schooling careers.
The Council of British International Schools (COBIS) organise many events throughout the year from Child Protection and Safer Recruitment Training to the Conference for Bursars, Business Managers and HR Staff. The Student Leadership Conference was introduced as a result of other successful educational conferences for students. Students attending the event learned about personal branding, presentation and public speaking skills, creative problem solving, university life skills and much more. To attend students had to be over 16 years old and attending an international British school.
Doha College’s Head Boy, Azan stated, “this conference allowed us to meet with other students our age from other schools worldwide. It was great to share ideas and experiences.” This was echoed by Head Girl Nora, “We were given lots of time to explore what Leadership means to us. There is no one way to lead people but we were encouraged to stay true to our beliefs”
Teresa Woulfe, Senior Vice Principal, who also joined the students, explained the benefits of the weekend training: “Doha College invests a lot of time and effort to continuously improve the development of our students and staff, this is key to school improvement. As a result, Doha College is recognised globally as a reputable educational institution in Qatar. It was excellent to be able to help Azan and Nora develop their skills and we will now encourage them to disseminate this training to their fellow 6th Form students. It was also wonderful to be in Madrid for the launch of the new Student Magazine from COBIS, we will aim to share an article in the magazine this year." The Peninsula
