Services offers to GU Students
The basic services provided by Gulf University
Dear students,
Gulf University supports all students and works to provide an appropriate educational environment to achieve its mission in the development of an environment for continuous improvement. Following is a summary of the services Gulf University provides for students, which we hope they take advantage of them as we wish the best for all our students.
Career Advising Center:
Gulf University established this center to guide its senior students as well as graduates towards their future careers according to their skills, as well as educate them on how to deal with the labor market and enter the practical life with confidence and competence to get the suitable job. Students can communicate directly with the center at the Deanship of Student Affairs, or via e-mail career@gulfuniversity.net
Students Advising and Guidance Center:
The students advising and guidance center aims to help students achieve their personal growth and develop their skills and abilities to take appropriate decisions to resolve problems and overcome the obstacles they might face during their academic life at the university. This is done by providing the developmental services and training programs which contribute to achieve the university’s goals and mission to create an appropriate environment for students psychologically, socially, educationally and academically. The center, in coordination with academic advisers, helps diagnose and resolve the weak students’ problems that risk their success. In addition, there are special instructions to help these students. These instructions available in the student guide. The students can communicate with the center either directly at the deanship of student affairs or via e-mail student.counseling@gulfuniversity.net
Committee of Students’ Complaints:
Gulf University believes that it is an essential that students obtain their rights and feeling of justice, fairness, and equality during their period of study. Therefore, a committee was formed to consider the students’ complaints, address them, and find appropriate solutions to ensure that the students get their rights. This is also a platform for students to provide them the opportunity to have their voices heard and comment about their personal problems and offer feedback and suggestions that service other students and develop the university.
There are two types of complaints: first, complaints that are related to public services, management, misunderstandings that may occur between faculty members and staff administrative on one hand and the students themselves on the other hand. The second type of complaints is related to grades and exam results. This committee considers the first type of complaints, while the examination committee is responsible for the second type of complaints.
student.complaint@gulfunoversity.net
Academic Support Center (for weak students):
The university takes the responsibility of improving the students’ educational level and enable them to overcome the problems which resulted in the decreasing their GPA. Therefore, Gulf University established a specialized committee that developed certain procedures to support weak students academically who are at risk of failure. Activation of these procedures depends primarily on the cooperation among the student, the academic advisor and the centre. All the details needed are included in the student guide.
IT services
The Department of Information Technology provides the computers in the labs and the library and works on maintaining them in good condition and its continuous excellent performance. Students can use computers to browse the university website in order to follow up the latest news, publications, study schedules and grades. The students can access to the electronic library or take advantage of the e-learning system. In addition, they may access the network using Wi-Fi free connection on their personal computers. The department provides photo coping services through a number of copiers distributed across the university. Hopefully, by next spring the university will start providing the service of electronic registration.
eServices
IT Services Department is honored to announce 11 eServices to GU students and staff. All eServices can be accessed through this website home page, to ensure best access to them, we have explained the steps that need to be followed for each service, and the targeted groups. Our aim is to provide a quality services for students, faculty members, and visitors at any time.
- eLearning Service
- Digital Library
- Turn-it-in
- Staff Email
- Student Email
- Online Application*
- Student Timetable
- Student Study Plan
- Student Exam Result
- Alumni Details Update
- Course Schedule & Downloads
For more information about the 11 eService, please Click Here to view the eServices Manual.
Library
Gulf University paid special attention to the university library and in the pursuit to increase the library space; the new library was inaugurated in addition to the current library. The university seeks to increase the number and quality of books, references and periodicals available. The actual number of available books in the library is 14,514 books, 88 journals, and 460 theses. Students can use the available services in the library in terms of benefit to browse the books in the library or borrow for 14 days with the maximum number of three books for each undergraduate student and 21 days with the maximum number of 5 books for the postgraduate students with the possibility of renewal.
Moreover, the electronic library provides a search engine where students can take advantage of about 5000 books, 580 scientific journals. This can be accessed either from inside or outside the university after the completion of free subscription procedures to get the password from the library reception. The library offers a reservation service for books that are taught during the academic semester as they are placed on the reserved shelf at the beginning of each semester and students are only allowed to copy from them according to the library instructions.
The University sells the courses textbooks at a relevant price in the university bookstore. The library is opened to all students and researchers, seven days a week including Friday from eight in the morning until eight in the evening. Accessing the library is free of charge , students are only required to show their personal identification "university ID card." For more information or inquiries email us at: library@gulfuniversity.net
E-learning Center
For the purpose of improving the standards of the educational services offered by the university, this center was established in order to provide electronic communication between students and faculty members over the Internet. By offering e-materials that supplement the regular in class course using the Moodel system. The students can visit the E-learning center to learn more details, or by asking their academic advisers, or communicate via e-mail: elearning@gulfuniversity.net.
Avoiding Plagiarism:
The University provides Turnitin service to prevent plagiarism. All details about this service are available at the deanship of graduate studies.
Special Needs Students services:
Gulf University exerts effort to ensure that students with special needs get use of all services, programs and facilities. All university utilities facilitate the movement of disabled students where there are special lanes for them to move from one place to another, in addition to special parking. The University provides service to write the exams for vision impaired students.
Health services:
Gulf University focused on offering health care services to students and university staff through the establishment of a medical clinic in the university to provide primary health care services free of charge for all university members: students, staff and faculty. There is a specialized nursing staff of two nurses who works for 13 hours every day (from eight in the morning until nine in the evening).
Sports services:
There are al lot of utilities and facilities for sports activities, which include courts for football, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table tennis, etc. the students can use and practice their hobbies in coordination with the sports supervisor at the deanship of student affairs. In previous years, many matches took place with the participation of teams who were playing on the level of university. Students join the university teams according to the sport that suits them.
Cafeteria and Relaxation:
The University offers a number of cafeterias and places for breaks that can be used by students to eat or rest. These places are distributed in various university buildings. The university provides a number of vending machine for soft drinks and some snacks for the students. Besides, it provides a number of refrigerators that provide cold healthy water. There are also rooms suitable for praying in all the university buildings.
Transportation:
Gulf University provides transportation service for students from Saudi Arabia, where there are assigned shuttle buses trips every day to transport students from the city of Khobar - the district of Doha - to the university and vice versa. The first ride begins at six thirty in the morning from the city of Khobar and returns at 2 o’clock in the afternoon in front of the university. While the second ride begins at ten o’clock in the morning from the city of Khobar back at five o’clock in the afternoon, picking up students in front of the university back to Khobar. Sometimes there might be slight changes in the timings of the return of buses according to the needs of students if necessary.
eServices
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