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Qatar
Foundation
 The
Qatar Foundation was founded in 1996 as a private,
non-profit, day school for boys and girls of all
nationalities. It provides educational opportunities for
students from 3 to 18 years of age. The Academy offers a
curriculum that uniquely combines the host culture with
both traditional and new learning programs and
methodologies. The purpose-built school facilities are
world class.
Qatar Foundation Current Centers
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Qatar Academy »
 Qatar
Academy is a private, non-profit organization
offering quality education for boys and girls
from pre-school to university entrance.
The Academy was founded in 1996 under the
auspices of the Qatar Foundation for Education,
Science and Community Development. Comprising of
a Primary School and Senior School, it occupies
a magnificent campus on the outskirts of Doha.
The Academy serves students from age 3 to 18
offering an international curriculum that
incorporates Arabic culture, combined with the
traditional values and the most modern trends in
education. We have a team of highly experienced
teachers and administrators joining us from
Europe, the United States, Australasia and the
Middle East working with over 870 students of 37
nationalities.
Since women form an essential link between the
family and the medical team, the Women's branch
was established in September 1996. It helps in
promoting the participation of women freely
while maintaining the traditional values.
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The Learning Center (TLC) »
 The
Learning Center in Qatar, an international
educational community, is a private, non-profit
organization founded in 1996 by Qatar Foundation
for Education, Science and Community
Development.
It provides diagnostic consultative, direct
instructional and therapeutic services to
students with learning differences in order to
enable them to reach their full potential.
Individualized instruction, small classes and a
highly specialized curriculum emphasizing
cognitive, social and academic development for
full time students. Outreach programs such as
professional training, lectures, parent
information sessions and community awareness
promote public understanding and knowledge of
current research in child development, teaching
and parenting techniques.
It also offers a highly encouraging learning
environment that enables students to achieve
overall personal excellence, thus ensuring their
place in the larger world community as self
confident, and self reliant adults.
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Academic Bridge Program (ABP) »
 The
Academic Bridge Program (ABP), a post-secondary
university preparatory program, which prepares
the most able of regional high school graduates
for admission to and success in degree programs
at the universities in Qatar Foundation's
Education City and other world-class
universities. In addition, it serves students by
easing the transition from area schools into the
rigorous, demanding environment of selective
educational institutions.
Serving approximately 220 students this year,
the Academic Bridge Program utilizes a specially
designed American curriculum to ensure that
students meet high-level admission standards.
In addition to the social and educational
preparation it gives to students, the Academic
Bridge Program provides state-of-the-art
facilities and broad international
acceptability. Great opportunities are available
for the region's top students to study at
selective universities, and the Academic Bridge
Program ensures their ability to succeed at
those universities by providing them with the
confidence, support and skills they need to
achieve in the highly competitive atmosphere of
world-class institutions
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The Social Development Center (SDC) »
 Social
Development Center (SDC), a non profitable organization
was established in 1996 under the patronage of H.H
Sheikha Mozha Bint Nasser Al-Misneed, the Consort of H.H
the Emir.
SDC cares for all members and sector of society,
Qatari's and non-Qatari's.
SDC
gives priority to the development of low-income families
and women, and empower them to be self-sufficient.
Strengthening the role of the family in society and
protecting its social and economic stability. Raising
the economic situation of low income families and
assisting them to be self sufficient. Empowering women
economically and improving their status in
society. Monitoring and scientifically studying social
problems and proposing solutions for them. Preserving
popular heritage and reviving traditional marketable
crafts.
Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) »
 QDA
helps diabetics in Qatar and their families to lead a
normal productive life. It further helps prevent people
from becoming diabetics through awareness and training
programs. It promotes a healthy lifestyle, thus reducing
the prevalence of diabetes in Qatar.
Qatar
Foundation Branch Campuses
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar »
 Carnegie
Mellon University is a world leader in technology and
the arts, with programs of excellence in a range of
disciplines. This private, research-based university,
which has its main campus in Pittsburgh, Pa., will offer
undergraduate Business and Computer Science degree
programs in Education City to approximately 50 students
from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries each year.
The total student population will grow to some 400
students. Carnegie Mellon seeks to contribute to the
Qatar Foundation's commitment to education in the region
through this partnership.
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Virginia Commonwealth University - School of Arts in
Qatar »
 VCU
School of the Arts in Qatar is a private institution
established by the Qatar Foundation for Education,
Science, and Community Development to provide special
educational opportunities in the design professions.
These opportunities reflect traditional beliefs
about preserving customs and culture as well as
modern ideas about using education to achieve
professional goals.
VCU School of the Arts in Qatar was established
by Virginia Commonwealth University, a leading
American university with a nationally ranked
school of art.
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Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) »
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar is a new and
pioneering project bringing the best of American medical
education to the Middle East.
The College is a branch campus of Cornell University, a
member of the prestigious Ivy League*, established in
co-operation with the Qatar Foundation for Education,
Science and Community Development.
It offers a complete educational program leading to a
Cornell University medical degree, based on the same
admission standards and curriculum as in New York and
teaching by Cornell faculty. This is the first time that
any American university has offered its Doctor of
Medicine degree overseas.
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar aims to further
the University's commitment to excellence in teaching,
research, patient care and the advancement of the art
and science of medicine. It also supports the work of
the Qatar Foundation in serving the community, by
training the physicians of tomorrow and planning to
research medical problems of concern in the region.
The new building in Education City is a superb setting
for this historic project. The lecture halls are unique
in design; the faculty outstanding; the teaching and
laboratory facilities world-class; the technology
state-of-the-art, which means we have all the resources
of Cornell University at our fingertips here in Qatar.
(* The Ivy League comprises the top eight universities
in the United States).
Texas A&M University in Qatar »
 Qatar
Foundation and Texas A&M University have signed an
agreement valid for ten years that aims to provide an
academic and an advanced research programs in
engineering sciences in the State of Qatar.
Commencing in Fall 2003, Texas A&M University will open
an off-campus branch offering programs that prepare
students to attain university degrees in Petroleum,
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Furthermore, the
world-class education levels that Texas A&M University
professors and scientists bring into this partnership
will assist Qatar Foundation in attaining its
developmental objectives.
Texas A&M University off-campus branch will be part of a
comprehensive University City that houses a number of
educational institutions on a 2400 acres Educational
City.
 Scientific
research is considered the backbone of Texas A&M
University programs. The University has established two
research centers specifically designed to the study of
the proper exploitation of natural resources as well as
means of protecting the environment. It?s noteworthy to
mention here that Texas A&M University plans in the
foreseeable future to develop a post-graduate program
that caters to a number of engineering specializations .
Established in 1876, Texas A&M University is the first
higher education public institution to be established in
the State of Texas having a firmly established mission
to further research, learning and development, and one
of a number of US universities that have excelled in the
field of research. Having a roll of 45000, including
3500 foreign students from 119 countries, makes Texas
A&M University the fifth largest educational institution
in the U.S. In addition, Texas A&M University professors
contribute to more than 300 research projects in
collaboration with universities and educational
institutions in almost 50 countries around the globe.
The university's engineering program is among the best
engineering programs offered in the United States, where
Texas A&M University Petroleum Engineering Program leads
all other programs offered by universities in the U.S.
It's expected that the roll in Texas A&M University
off-campus branch will increase yearly by 50-100
students over a 10 year period. Texas A&M University is
committed to providing in the university off-campus
branch in Qatar an educational program of excellence and
a world-class scientific and applied research programs.
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in
Qatar »
Georgetown University's Edmund
A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the newest
institution to open a branch campus at Education City,
will begin offering a four-year program leading to a
bachelor's degree in foreign service in August 2005.
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign
Service, founded in 1919, is the centerpiece of
Georgetown University¹s commitment to educate students
for careers in the international arena. It was the first
school in the United States to develop an
interdisciplinary liberal arts undergraduate program
focused on international affairs. Students complete a
challenging four-year international affairs curriculum,
which builds on Georgetown¹s Jesuit traditions of
service and cross-cultural understanding and its mission
of educating citizen leaders. The SFS curriculum
prepares students from around the world for positions of
leadership in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.
To learn more
about Georgetown in Qatar or to find admissions
information, please visit
www.georgetown.edu/sfs/qatar
Georgetown
University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit University
in America, founded in 1789 by Archbishop John Carroll.
Georgetown today is a major student-centered,
international, research university offering respected
undergraduate, graduate and professional programs on its
three campuses. For more information about Georgetown
University, visit
www.georgetown.edu.
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute »
RAND and Qatar Foundation have partnered to establish
the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute in Doha, to harness the
research and analytic skills of hundreds of RAND experts
in the United States and Europe to study some of the
most important issues facing the Middle East.
The Institute is a home for analysis of subjects key to
the economic and social development and the stability of
the region-education, health care, effective governance,
labor markets and human resource development,
demographics and population dynamics, information and
communications technology, transportation, water
resources, physical and institutional infrastructure,
environmental protection, economic policy, and regional
security, to name a few. The objective of this analysis
is to provide public and private decision makers with
practical information about the options they face and
the consequences of pursuing alternative policies.
The Institute is an integral part of the Education City
now under development by the Qatar Foundation,
contributing to the intellectual vitality and the
practical utility of the community. In pursuing analyses
of key policy questions, the Institute will draw on the
expertise of the various faculties within the Education
City, linking these faculties to each other and
connecting them to the policy questions that face
decision makers throughout the Middle East. The
Institute will also help to create a cadre of policy
analysts, from Qatar and elsewhere in the Middle East,
expert on the key issues facing the countries of the
region.
The Institute opened in September 2003. It is under the
direction of Dr. C. Richard Neu, a RAND economist with
broad experience in government service, international
affairs, and security issues.
Science and Technology Park »
 The
Science and Technology Park (STP) is a prime location
for scientific companies and international corporations
to conduct R & D.. Here, industrial researchers will
collaborate with scientists from the academic
institutions of Education City. Anchor tenants include
global corporate names such as Shell, ExxonMobil, Total,
EADS and Microsoft. There will also be an incubator unit
where entrepreneurs with a promising business concept
will receive the necessary support and advice to launch
their idea in the market place. Corporate and academic
cultures will enrich each other, leading to the
development of the skills base and diversification of
the economy. STP will be built on 600, 000 sq m of land
within Education City.
 Qatar
Leadership Academy
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The Qatar Leadership Academy is being established under
a partnership between the Qatar Foundation for
Education, Science and Community Development and the
Qatar Armed Forces. QLA will work in collaboration with
the Wisconsin, US-based St John's Northwest Military
Academy, which was founded in 1884 for leadership
training, Qatar Academy and the International
Baccalaureate Organisation on academic issues and Aspire
on sports.
Qatar
Leadership
Academy
will provide the highest possible standards of
education, and strives to achieve academic and moral
excellence for each cadet that enters the academy. It
will develop independent, critical thinkers, lifelong
learners and responsible Qatari citizens who will be the
future leaders of society.
Education
City
 The
proposed Education City campus is conceived as a totally
integrated educational environment, which will encourage
synergy and interaction between the existing educational
and recreational facilities on the site and those
envisaged within the new academic and medical areas of
the University. Having acquired initially a total of
Land area - 1000 hectares, built up area - 800,000 m2 of
land the Education City project is currently under
construction and development stage.
Education City comprises the following major
land uses:
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 The
University and its expansion
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The existing Academic area and its expansion
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The University Housing required for the whole
development
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The Community Facilities (educational, religious,
cultural, health, recreational) which is offered on
site.
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The Sports Complex required for such a prominent
development (international standard).
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A variety of support uses that can be associated with
the Education City are to be provided within a
flexible layout adaptable to change; e.g. research
facilities, health uses, community facilities,
business office complexes, research and development
science parks, communication media uses, and
commercial, entertainment and leisure centres, and
any other new and future uses.
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