Your opinions would be greatly appreciated!

Qatar is going in the right direction. The international universities at Education City are leaders in their respective fields and award quality degrees. It represents an enormous investment by the government.

The problems as I see it are twofold. The first is the need to ensure high standards in primary and secondary schools, so that students are able to meet the entrance requirements of the international universities operating here.

The second problem is the need to find a way to keep Qatar's best and brightest young minds in Qatar. Setting up excellent universities in Qatar is a start, as it reduces the number of students who would otherwise study abroad and may choose to settle in those countries. However, more needs to be done to retain graduates after they receive their degrees. Citizenship rules and Qatarization of the work force means that a Egyptian student who receives a first rate MD from Cornell at Qatar is likely to find job prospects in another country more appealing and move. Why stay here and be passed over for promotion when you can move to Australia, become a dual citizen and be treated as an equal? As it stands, the majority of students in Education City are not Qatari, so the government is spending an awful lot of money educating young people for the benefit of other countries.

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y not.....its ment for educating people.

The Real Decision Makers of the Country.Who are they? and Why?

I am sure that Qatar enjoying Good Educational facilities ,But Are Qatari Citizens effectively utilizing it ?

What about the Quality of the Educational system in Qatar?

Qatar is investing heavily in education. look at the numerous International Universities cropping up here. They seem to be going in the right direction - Only time will tell..

They are certainly going in the right direction, however it depends on what education is given. The Saudis spend a lot of money on education but the education they get is poor, riddled with inaccuracies and just produces students with bits of paper. No good for their economy and means that they have to rely on expats for the more technical jobs.

Qatar has the right vision, lets hope they make it.

if you are talking about Qatar then yes, about comunity Schools its depends

I don't really know about the quality of education, what i've heard is that education fees are expensive here. (i can say so, because one of my nephew is studying here and paying almost QR1000 per month-i don't know the exact amount, which is already low compared to other schools. well, i'm comparing from my native land so maybe i see it as expensive.)

i can't tell you yet of their standard because he just started schooling.