UCL Qatar: first term report

Staff and students are coming to the end of the very first term at UCL Qatar, a unique three-way p artnership between UCL, Qatar Foundation and Qatar Museums Authority based in Doha, the capital city. UCL is the first British university to open a campus in Qatar, offering postgraduate degree programmes in the areas of Archaeology, Conservation, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies. Here Ileana Olmos (far right), a student originally from Panama, describes her first term in Qatar. It was exactly a year ago that I first heard about the opening of UCL's new campus in Qatar, never anticipating that it would be my final destination. After a few months of communication, paperwork, and expectation, the letter of acceptance arrived, and it was then that the real journey began. I said goodbye to my friends, my belongings, and to life as I knew it, and with great joy I prepared to become a member of the UCL family abroad. UCL Qatar offers three competitive Masters programmes: Archaeology of the Arab and Islamic World, Museum and Gallery Practice, and Conservation Studies.