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Article: Qatar invests in a vision: Qatar has embarked upon a plan to revolutionise its system of education. With state-of-the-art staffing levels and resources, the Gulf emirate is optimistic of turning out a new generation of Qataris capable of running their own state-of-the-art economy.(MOSAIC )
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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AT AL ISRA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL in Qatar, perfumed smoke wafts out of the door of the special needs department, where three teachers on their break eat sweet pastries and burn 'bakhoor', the local incense.
Girls in long pinafores with round collars flood into the central, air-conditioned hall, to play out of the scorching sun. And head teacher Noor Al Rashid scrolls through a text in Arabic from a Year 3 class reading: "Thank you, we love you."
Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world. Oil wealth plus vast reserves of liquefied natural gas (LNG) combine to give it the fastest economic growth rate in the region and a high per capita income. That ...