DOHA: More than 30 percent of university students in Qatar pursue Arts, according to a recent report.
‘Cultural Statistics 2014 in Qatar’ says that number of university students enrolled in ‘cultural sciences’ was 5,813 in 2012, constituting 34 percent of total admission.
The report by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics refers to subjects such as education and humanitarian sciences, arts and social science, behavioural sciences, media and communication as cultural specialisations or cultural sciences.
In 2012, only 20 percent of male students enrolled in cultural specializations, compared to 41 percent of female students. The number of students who graduated with cultural specializations were 684, constituting about 35 percent of total graduates.
The number of scholarships offered to students increased by 14 percent from 2011 to reach 53 in 2012. The rate of scholarships offered to students in cultural specializations increased to 36 percent between 2011 and 2012.
In 2010, 59,000 — four percent of the population aged 15 and above — were certificate holders in specializations that could be classified as part of cultural programmes, such as philosophy, art, carving and photography.
Among them 15 percent had obtained undergraduate diploma, five percent with postgraduate diploma and 10 percent with Master’s in cultural specializations. Around three percent obtained a doctorate.
Qatari females represent 40 percent of the student population enrolled in cultural study programmes.
It was also found that more than three-quarters of the cultural specialization certificate holders were university graduates.
In addition, 60 percent of the labour force hold an academic certificate with cultural specialization.
The number of school students reached 219,000 in 2012, showing an annual growth rate of 11 percent compared to 2011, and the number of university students went up to 17,000 in 2012, with an annual growth rate of 12 percent.
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