And I already said that Qatari's tend to have less of an incentive to study but the damage is also done to those of us who are actually keen to learn. For example, me and my friend both applied to one of the universities here at EC a year ago....we both had around the same average, same toefl score except that he was from an English school and I wasn't...he got accepted but I didnt ( I wonder why) and naturally I had no option but to study abroad and that turned out to be a disaster because I felt so unprepared! I couldn't even go into the Bridge program because according to them I'm already good at English. Now after all I went through I'm going to end up going to Qatar University. What's the point of importing these universities if the vast majority of Qatari's can't get into them? why the Bridge program-- shouldn't they try to improve public schools instead?
And I already said that Qatari's tend to have less of an incentive to study but the damage is also done to those of us who are actually keen to learn. For example, me and my friend both applied to one of the universities here at EC a year ago....we both had around the same average, same toefl score except that he was from an English school and I wasn't...he got accepted but I didnt ( I wonder why) and naturally I had no option but to study abroad and that turned out to be a disaster because I felt so unprepared! I couldn't even go into the Bridge program because according to them I'm already good at English. Now after all I went through I'm going to end up going to Qatar University. What's the point of importing these universities if the vast majority of Qatari's can't get into them? why the Bridge program-- shouldn't they try to improve public schools instead?