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The higher education sector of Qatar depends heavily on foreign knowledge. This knowledge is imported by foreign teachers or even by branches of international high-class universities that are unified in a prestigious campus called Education City. These facts set the stage for research and education on a Western level so that the young Qataris’ only need to grab their chance. Apart from the exceedingly good higher education facilities brought by the foreigners into the country, they also bring their culture and lifestyle with them, what is in turn not well received by many Qataris.
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Gremm, J., Barth, J., Fietkiewicz, K.J., Stock, W.G. (2018). Universities and Other Institutions of Higher Education. In: Transitioning Towards a Knowledge Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71195-9_9
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