| 12 Dec 2009 |
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Qatar: Spending on education at all-time high
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DOHA: Qatar's spending on its education sector has touched an all-time high. The country spent a whopping QR19.7bn on education in 2008, a research note released by the Qatar Permanent Population Committee said.
The country's annual spending on the education sector during 2005-2006 was just QR3.65bn, before it took a quantum jump in 2008.
The population committee's figures were supported by the just-concluded Arab Thought Foundation conference in Kuwait. It was announced at the conference that Qatar is the country that offers the highest quality of education in the region.
A report on "Arab Development and Culture" presented at the two-day meeting also observed that Qatar's education system was one of the best in the region.
The findings on Qatar were announced by Khalid bin Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, Chairman of Arab Thought (Fikr) Foundation. The research note also cited Qatar's e-governance as the best in the Arab world and ranked 26th in the world.
The global think tank, RAND, which analyses the progress of Qatar's new school system and monitors the financial resources used in the education reforms, says the country's overall spending on K-12 education reform increased from QR144m in 2003-2004 to QR841m in 2005-2006.
© The Peninsula 2009
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