Maj Gen Fahad Mubarak Al Khayareen and Microsoft’s Middle East and Africa Senior Director for Education, Harb Bou-Harb, signing the agreement.
Doha: Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College and Microsoft have signed a strategic partnership agreement to meet the demand of the labour market and enhance knowledge in the practical and academic sides across the different educational institutions of the armed forces.
Maj Gen Fahad Mubarak Al Khayareen signed the agreement on behalf of the college, while Harb Bou-Harb, Microsoft’s Middle East and Africa senior director for education, represented the company.
The Ministry of Defence’s Moral Guidance Department said the agreement aims to benefit from a number of Microsoft curricula and adopt them as reference sources in teaching while also providing the necessary software for these curricula to benefit the students of the college.
According to the agreement, the academic personnel will be trained to use the software and curricula in the educational process besides supporting the college as a training institution under the armed forces to train the Qatari troops.
The agreement is the first of its kind at the level of military colleges in the Middle East.
