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Qatar, a small Arab country, has doubled its education budget over the past six years, part of a strategy to prepare for a post-hydrocarbons future. The nonprofit Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, which leads this effort, has at its center Education City, a 5.4-square-mile area that is host to eight top-ranked global universities. These include HEC for executive education, Weill Cornell Medical College for medicine, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service for government service, Texas A&M for oil and gas, and University College London (UCL) Qatar for heritage...
Little Qatar Big on Education
Qatar, a small Arab country, has doubled its education budget over the past six years, part of a strategy to prepare for a post-hydrocarbons future. The nonprofit Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, which leads this effort, has at its center Education City, a 5.4-square-mile area that is host to eight top-ranked global universities. These include HEC for executive education, Weill Cornell Medical College for medicine, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service for government service, Texas A&M for oil and gas, and University College London (UCL) Qatar for heritage...