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In recent years Qatar has placed great emphasis on education. Along with the country’s free healthcare, citizens enjoy free education from kindergarten through to university. Qatar University was founded in 1973. More recently, with the support of the Qatar Foundation, some major American universities have opened branch campuses in Education City, Qatar. These include Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Cornell University's Weill Medical College. In addition, Northwestern University will offer undergraduate programs in communication and journalism starting in fall 2008.
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Qatar (U C - Q) today revealed the phrase “Globalizing Academic Excellence” as the institution’s formal signature statement. Intended to advance the University’s presence in this region, the statement provides a point of reference to guide the image and policies of Doha’s first
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Qatar's national income primarily derives from oil and natural gas exports. The country has oil estimated at 15 billion barrels (2.4 km³), while gas reserves in the giant north field (South Pars for Iran) which straddles the border with Iran and are almost as large as the peninsula itself are estimated to be between 800–900tcf (Trillion Cubic Feet - 1tcf is equal to around 80 million barrels of oil equivalent). Qataris' wealth and standard of living compare well with those of Western European states; Qatar has the highest GDP per capita in the Arab World according to the International Monetary Fund (2006) [3] or the second wealthiest one after the United Arab Emirates, according to the CIA (2006) [4] and the University of Pennsylvania (2003). [5] With no income tax, Qatar is ... one of the two least-taxed sovereign states in the world (the other is Bahrain).
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The Qatar library actively supports the mission of Carnegie Mellon University to prepare students to become “ life-long learners’”. A key to the success of this mission is the instruction and support of students in efficient and effective use of all library and information resources available on site or remotely.
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A STUDY has proven that there is violence against women within the family in Qatar. The survey, conducted by Kaltham al-Ghanem of the Social Department at Qatar University, sampled 2,778 QU female students, comprising 84% of Qataris and 16% of other nationalities, aged between 17 and 25 years.
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