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A former US Foreign Service officer, Ms. Anh-Hao Thi Phan is a doctoral candidate in New York
University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is conducting research at Education City in Doha, Qatar.
A New Paradigm of Educational Borrowing in the Gulf States: The Qatari Example
More than in any other world region, the Arab Gulf states are experiencing a “higher education boom” in terms of the quantity and quality of institutions and programs now available. Over the past two decades, the Gulf states have imported a Western, largely American, model of higher education to address inefficiencies in labor markets and invest in their economic futures, to meet national reform agendas, and in some cases, to function as profit-making ventures.
