Doha: As many as 2,923 students from the GCC countries are studying in government schools of Qatar, statistics released by the GCC General Secretariat reveal.
These students include nearly 1,504 girls and 1,419 boys, according to the 2012 statistics, an Arabic daily reported yesterday.
Figures show that the number of students who left their home countries to study in other GCC states was 39,584, which included 19,883 boys and 19,701 girls.
The number of GCC students in Kuwait was 16,504, while UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman had 12,085, 6,580, 808 and 684.
A majority of GCC youngsters studying outside their home countries were from Saudi Arabia, with nearly 48 percent of the Saudi young learners studying in different GCC schools. Some 29 percent of students in GCC schools were from Oman, followed by Kuwait (13 percent), Bahrain (5 percent) and Qatar (2 percent).
Statistics also showed that 6,204 GCC students were studying in government sector higher education institutes outside their countries. Bahrain had attracted the highest number of GCC nationals with 2,544 students in the country’s national higher education sector.
Kuwait had the second largest number of these students with 1,608 GCC nationals studying in different government sector institutes. Qatar, meanwhile, was reported to have 569 GCC nationals. The Peninsula
