Empirical Analysis to Meet the Regions Challenges — October 14, 2009
In this interview for The Foundation, Bruce Nardulli, Director of the RAND Qatar Policy Institute, describes how policy analysis helps governments and other clients make good policy decisions, and looks to the future of policy research.
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Revitalizing Qatar's National University (Arabic version) — Oct. 6, 2009
Describes the effort, begun in 2003, to reform Qatar University, including the impetus for reform, the design and implementation of the reform agenda, and a review of challenges that have been overcome and those that remain.
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Qatar's Labor Markets at a Crucial Crossroad — Aug 10, 2009
Qatar has imported foreign labor to the point where foreigners outnumber Qataris by almost seven to one. The reliance on foreign laborers and the lack of skilled Qatari workers is widely seen by Qatar's leaders as a serious threat to the nation's economic autonomy and long-term economic viability. This article provides a detailed quantitative assessment of the economic and demographic situation that underlies the current challenges and discusses several policy options that might be used to help overcome them.
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Lessons Learned from Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System — Aug 5, 2009
This research brief summarizes the development of a standards-based student assessment system in Qatar, lessons for policymakers in Qatar and elsewhere, and challenges in aligning the assessment with future changes in the curriculum standards.
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RAND Education Informational Brochure (Arabic Version) — Jun 22, 2009
RAND Education, a unit of the RAND Corporation, is dedicated to improving education policy and decisionmaking worldwide through state-of-the-art research and analysis.
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New Director for RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Is Announced — Apr. 7, 2009
Bruce Nardulli, a senior political scientist with the RAND Corporation, has been named the new director of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute , RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson announced today.
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RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Celebrates Five Years — Feb. 25, 2009
Nearly 150 guests celebrated the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute’s 5th anniversary, and RAND’s 60th anniversary, at the Qatar Foundation’s headquarters in Education City, Doha, on October 26, 2008.
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60 Ways RAND Has Made a Difference — Jan. 31, 2009
RAND has helped to improve policy and decisionmaking in countless ways over the past 60 years. An interactive book reflects on sixty of those notable contributions.
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RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Opens and Selects Board of Overseers —Oct. 13, 2003
The RAND Corporation and the Qatar Foundation today announced the creation of a Board of Overseers to guide the development of the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute. The new Board will be co-chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misnad and RAND Executive Vice President Michael Rich.
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RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Opens to Focus on Middle East Issues —Apr. 28, 2003
Qatar Foundation and RAND today signed an agreement to establish the RAND-Qatar Policy Institute, which will 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.
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