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The return to school for the new academic year 2024/2025 begins today, Monday, with supervisors, members of educational bodies, related jobs, and supporting groups starting their work in various schools in the Sultanate of Oman in preparation for ringing school bells to welcome students next Sunday. The number of teachers this year in government schools reached (61,195) with an Omanisation rate of 87.6%, distributed over (1,269) schools. The number of administrators and technicians in government schools reached (10,652), of whom (4,306) were males and (6,346) were females with an ...

The Ministry of Education, represented by the Supervisory Committee of the Omani Teacher Educational Excellence Award in its second session, held its meeting earlier this week, headed by HE Prof.Dr. Abdullah bin Khamis Ambosaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry for Education and Chairman of the Committee, in the presence of its members, at the Ministry’s General Diwan. The meeting included discussions on several topics, including determining the number of qualifiers in the automated sorting, according to the total number of candidates according to the academic subjects, the ...

The Ministry of Education held a ceremony to honor outstanding students of the General Education Diploma for the academic year 2023/2024 under the auspices of HE Sultan bin Salim Al Habsi, Minister of Finance, and in the presence of HE Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al Shaibaniyah, Minister of Education, a number of Their Excellencies the Ministers, the honored members of the State Council, Their Excellencies the Undersecretaries, a number of teachers, and parents of the honored students. The honoring ceremony was held at the Grand Events Hall at the Oman Convention and ...

HE Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al Shaibaniya, Minister of Education, patronized today (Sunday) the official announcement and receipt of the approval of the University College of London for six (6) strategic programs affiliated with the Specialized Institute for Professional Training for Teachers, namely: the Mathematics Experts Program, the Supervision Experts Program, the New Teachers Program, the Arabic Language Experts Program (1-4), the Senior Teachers Program, and the Science Experts Program, in the presence of HE Prof. Dr. Abdullah bin Khamis Ambosaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of ...

The Ministry of Education signed an agreement with Al Suwadi Energy and Al Batinah Energy, this , to finance a number of innovative educational projects, namely the “Interactive Screens Project, the Green Schools Project, the Integration Classes Project, and the STEM Oman Project” for the year 2024. The agreement was signed by HE Majid bin Said Al Bahri, Undersecretary of the Ministry for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Rawahy, CEO of Al Suwadi Energy, and Saud bin Hamad Al Waili, CEO of Al Batinah Energy. The agreement was signed in the presence ...

The Ministry of Education, represented by the Department of Educational Studies and International Cooperation, continues its participation in the Chinese Language Bridge Camp, which continues until the twenty-first of this month. A number of eighteen students are participating in the Camp, sixteen of whom are from the governorates of (Muscat and Al-Dakhiliyah), and two students from “My Private School”, at Tianjin University of Foreign Languages ​​in Tianjin City in the People’s Republic of China. The Ministry’s participation in the camp includes ...

HE Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al-Shaibaniyah, Minister of Education, received today (Wednesday) in her Office HE Khaled Rady, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt accredited to the Sultanate of Oman, and the accompanying delegation, in the presence of a number of ministry officials.   During the meeting, areas of joint cooperation in educational aspects were reviewed as well asstrengthening relations between the two countries, and reviewing the joint bilateral relations between the Sultanate of Oman and the Arab Republic of Egypt in the fields ...

HE Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al-Shaibaniya, Minister of Education, issued Ministerial Resolution No. 192/2024, which stipulated the cancellation of Ministerial Resolutions No. (389/2011) and (129/2022) related to the formation of the special committee for preparation, implementation, and follow-up of the teaching of the French and German languages trial stage. The issuance of this decision comes in line with the Ministry’s efforts to expand the teaching of several foreign languages ​​in the coming years, including the Chinese language, and is in line with the ...

The Ministry of Education and Mitsui E&P Middle East signed an agreement to support and finance the establishment of a sensory and visual interaction hall at Al Amal School for the Deaf in Al Khuwair. The agreement was signed by HE Majid bin Said Al Bahri, Undersecretary of the Ministry for Administrative and Financial Affairs, and Nasser bin Ali Al Kindi, General Manager of the company. The signing of the agreement was attended by Dr. Shanoona Al Habsi, Assistant Director-General for Special Education at the Directorate-General of Special Education and Continuous Learning, ...

The Ministry of Education has made many efforts to achieve the integrated growth of Omani students in their various educational stages, according to solid foundations and principles that relate the spiritual, mental, physical, social and health aspects of students. In continuation of the Ministry’s role in preserving students’ health, it has highlighted the problem of heavy school bags, especially for the age group of students in grades (1-4), due to its double impact on them. Scientific studies conducted on this subject have indicated that there are a number of health damages ...

 Sayyid Marwan bin Turki Al Said, Governor of Dhofar, patronizes , the closing ceremony of the Scout Forum for Youth Empowerment, held at the Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex for Culture and Entertainment in Salalah. The forum was held from 2 until 8 of August Faris Al-Aufi, Director of the Youth Programs Department at the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Youth, delivered a speech on behalf of the organizing committee, in which he said: “The Sultanate of Oman pays great attention to its youth through its various institutions, and holding this forum aims to prepare the environment for ...

The Gulf Student Forum for Financial Culture, organized by the Ministry of Education, represented by the (Khazna) project to instill the principles of financial culture among school students, in cooperation with the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States, was launched on Sunday morning at the Rotana Salalah Resort in Dhofar Governorate under the slogan "Towards Building Financial Culture for School Students" and will continue until Thursday this week. The forum began with a welcoming speech delivered by Dr. Haifa Al-Maamari, Director of the Khazna project, to the ...

HE Prof. Dr. Abdullah bin Khamis Ambosaidi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Education, patronized on Tuesday morning the closing ceremony of the Educational Tools Caravan initiative in its first edition, which included (6) governorates, namely: (Muscat, Al Batinah South, Al Batinah North, Al Dakhiliyah, Al Buraimi, Al-Dhahirah), and organized by the Directorate-General of Curriculum Development, represented by the (Educational Technologies Department). The closing ceremony took place at Khasab Hall at the Ministry’s General Diwan’s Theater. The ceremony began ...

The Ministry of Education held yesterday, Wednesday, morning a meeting with representatives of economic sectors from professional associations and sectoral skills units to discuss the foundations of offering future specializations for vocational education. The meeting was held at the Ministry’s General Diwan. This meeting came within the framework of the Joint Committee for Vocational and Technical Education in the Post-Basic Education Stage, whose membership includes representatives of some government agencies and relevant economic sectors. This committee aims to achieve integration ...

Under the patronage of HE Dr. Mona Bint Salem Al-Jardaniyah, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Innovation for Vocational Training, The University of Al-Sharqiyah in cooperation with the Ministry of Education held yesterday, Wednesday, a symposium on “Private Lessons in the Sultanate of Oman - Reality, Reasons and Proposals.” The symposium took place at Khasab Hall at the Ministry’s General Diwan’s Theater. The symposium aimed to present the results and recommendations of research that was applied in the Sultanate of Oman to ...