post secondary education in qatar

We recommend that the three gaps we identified in Qatar’s current post-secondary education offerings be considered as areas for future investment, as follows: To address the gap resulting from the limited opportunities for remedial course work prior to admittance for university study, consider the option of establishing a government-sponsored ...

Download chapter PDF. This chapter aims to provide an understanding of why and how Qatar’s post-secondary education (PSE) was reformed. It contains an overview, analysis, and discussion of PSE reform policies in Qatar for the period 1998–2013, drawing on the author’s experience for a decade in Qatar working on aspects of the PSE reform as ...

Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development is a private, chartered, non-profit organization in the state of Qatar, founded in 1995. Under Qatar Foundation's umbrella are Education City , which began construction in 2000 [8] and which comprises several foreign universities, academic and training programs, and the Qatar ...

[This research brief describes work documented in "Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy," by Cathleen Stasz, Eric R. Eide, and Francisco ...

The leadership of Qatar has a social and political vision that calls for improving the country's post-secondary education system. Qatar's Supreme Education Council asked RAND to conduct a one-year study to assess whether the current post-secondary education opportunities in Qatar are aligned with the nation's social and economic goals, and to help articulate priorities for developing post ...

Corpus ID: 167137099; Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy. Monograph. @article{Stasz2007PostSecondaryEI, title={Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy.

Like a growing number of countries, Qatar has an issue with the level of readiness of high school graduates for post-secondary education and careers. In other words, there exists an apparent gap between admission requirements for post-secondary education and the outcomes of high schools in the country.

Specifically, this one-year study sought to determine: (1) the specific occupations in which Qataris can make the greatest contribution to the society and economy, and the education and training required to realize these contributions; (2) the measures that might encourage more Qataris, especially young men, to pursue post-secondary education ...

They recommend several options to address the gaps in Qatar's post-secondary educational offerings. [This research brief describes work documented in "Post-Secondary Education in Qatar: Employer Demand, Student Choice, and Options for Policy," by Cathleen Stasz, Eric R. Eide, and Francisco Martorell, 2007 (ED501591).]

route to secure admission to post-secondary education. 8.2 The Qatar Education System Realizing that the nation’s greatest natural resource is its people, Qatar regards edu-cation as a top national priority. The Qatar National Vision 2030 rests on the funda-mental goal of building a knowledge-based economy, where education is the key for