[B]Qatar University opts for Arabic teaching medium[/B]
Posted by Qatar is BooMING on Jan 27, 2012 in Education & Culture | 0 comments
Qatar’s Supreme Education Council (SEC) has said that Arabic language is to be the medium of instruction
at the Qatar University (QU), the Peninsula has reported.Under the decision, Arabic language shall be the medium
of instruction at the Faculty of Law, as well as in the disciplines of international affairs, Media and the
Faculty of Business Administration as of the fall 2012 semester.
[B]MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012[/B]
[B]Arabic and English language instruction at QU[/B]
The Faculty of Law requires students complete 42 credits in English language law courses, comprised of 27
compulsory credits in English and additional English electives totaling another 15 credits. The list of English and Arabic
courses is here. Legal research, writing and legal English classes are required in the College of Law to build on the English
language skills gained in the first year Foundation Program. As Dr. Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi said, offering a mixture of English
and Arabic in law courses provides the Qatari community with bilingual law graduates to meet the needs of the legal market
. Law students are in high demand and almost all are hired immediately upon graduation in the energy sector , banks, real
estate, and investment. Many international law firms hire QU law graduates with strong English skills.
The Qatari Supreme Education Council issued a decision this week requiring Arabic to be the medium of instruction at Qatar
University. The short decree states that students are to be directly accepted in departments without the need to study the Foundation Program and Arabic will be the medium of instruction at the Faculty of Law, International affairs, Communication, and Business
Administration in Fall 2012. Here is the SEC decree.
The Peninsula newspaper has the best article so far discussing the reaction of faculty, students, and the public to the
announcement. My own hope is that courses at the College of Law will be altered to meet the expectations of the
decree, especially the elimination of the Foundation Program, but instruction will remain bilingual. Library
resources and legal research instruction will continue to support both languages.
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