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The Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Education, on Wednesday participated in the regional ministerial meeting which discussed the issue of the reopening of schools in the Arab countries which was held via video conferencing with the participation of ministers of education from the Middle East and North Africa region, directors of UN agencies, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States (ABEGS). The meeting was aimed at identifying ...

  The office of HE Undersecretary of Ministry of Education for Education releases the first version of guidelines in “Distance Learning” which includes 80 pieces of advice presented by outstanding teachers. The release emphases on the importance of building strong communicative relationships with students and parents, creating interactive classrooms and controlling cyberbullying. The guidelines are set based on global experiences in how schools and teachers can deal with different educational situations that may occur in the school environment.

Dr. Abdullah bin Khamis Ambusaidi, Education Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education paid an official visit to a number of second round examination centers at the Directorate General of Education in Muscat Governorate. Dr.Ahmed Al Jahwari, the Director General of Muscat Directorate, accompanied his visit and visited Suhail bin Omro and Aysha Al Rasbiyah School Centers. H.E. viewed the examination process and listened to the students and their impressions about the exams.   In addition, he assured that the precautionary measures procedures followed in the centers during the ...

The Sultanate's student's team that representing the Ministry of Education ended its participation in the technical test of the international Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2020.The event held in Russia in Saint Petersburg via online for two days. Six students took part in the test from various education governorates such as Al Dhakhiliyah, Al Sharqiyah South and Al Sharqiyah North at Muscat Hall in the Ministry's Cabinet.      Moreover, the participation aimed to develop the skills of students' skills; prepare outstanding generation by applying national ...

H.E.the Minister of Education, Dr. Madiha bint Ahmed Al-Shaibania, issued a ministerial decision approving the regulations and foundations of the general framework for schools operating. Moreover, the decision comes in implementation of the directives to mark this year as a year of hybrid education, and to prepare for the beginning of new academic year 2020/2021. It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Education continued its great efforts in preparing plans and programs to reopen schools and ensure the safety of students, teachers and administration staff and benefiting form the best ...

HE Dr Rahma bint Ibrahim Al Mahrooqi, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and HE Dr Madeeha bint Ahmed Alshabaniyah, Minister of Education, visited the Innovation and Robot Science Center in Directorate General of Education in Dhofar.   During the visit, their excellencies viewed the scientific programs and activities implemented by the center since its opening. They visited the center’s halls and facilities. The center aims to spread the culture of innovation, provides inspiring environment of innovation for students and talented people, as well as to ...

Every Year on September 8, the Sultanate participates in celebrating International Literacy Day. The Sultanate has worked hard since 1973 and 1974 to eradicate illiteracy. The illiteracy rate in the Sultanate decreased to 5.78 in the age group of 15 years and above and the literacy rate reached 94.22 by the end of 2018. The Sultanate has committed regionally — represented by the Ministry of Education — to implement the terms and recommendations of the Arab Decade for Literacy (2015 to 2024). The Ministry has focused on the age group from 15 to 44 during the current decade, ...

MoE represented by Directorate General of Education in Al Sharqyiah South received the new building of Bilad Bani Bu Ali girls school for grades (10-12) in Jalan Bani Bu Ali. It took six hundred days to build the school. The school building consists of three floors, thirty classrooms and learning difficulties room. In the school there are rooms for music skills, fine art, activities, professional guidance as well as teachers’ rooms, administrative offices, social specialist office, school activity specialist office and psychologist office. The school has three laboratories for physics, ...

The Ministry of Education signed an agreement with Mitsui & Middle- East Ltd Company at the Ministry "s Main Cabinet in order  to finance the production of a series of cartoon films entitled “To My Home Country, I Belong ” for cycle one students (1-4). On behalf of the Ministry of Education, H.E. Majid Bin said Al-Bahari, the undersecretary of the Ministry for Administration and Finance Affairs signed the agreement with Najib Al-Harthi, the General Manager and the operations in Mitsui & Middle- East Ltd Company. H.E the Undersecretary for Administrative and ...

Dr. Abdullah bin Khamis Ambusaidi, Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education for Education, Chairman of Technical Committee for New Academic Year Preparations (2020-2021), today met a number of directors of the Online Instruction Program endorsed as a medium of education under the circumstances of coronavirus (Covide-19) pandemic. He also had a close look at the online instruction program updates, as well as challenges and proposals to overcome the difficulties within the context of the main stage to train school principals, supervisors and teachers of classes from 5-12 and 1-4. The OIP ...

The Ministry of Education, represented by a projects committee at the Directorate General of Education in Al Sharqiyah South received the new building of the Al-Imam Al-Salt Bin Al-Qasim Al-Kharousi Boys School in the Wilayat of Sur for grades (5-10) which located in Abu Qala area in Sur. In addition to that, it took (660) days to build the school. The new school building consists of three floors, thirty classrooms, a class for learning difficulties, five teachers' rooms, seven administration offices and two-computer rooms. Moreover, the school has two computer rooms, two science ...

His Majesty Haitham bin Tariq issued a Royal decree No.79/2020 defining the specializations of the Ministry of Education and its organizational structure. Article (1) defines the specializations of Ministry of Education in accordance with Annex (1) attached to this decree. Article (2) endorses the organizational structure of the Ministry of Education in accordance with Annex (2) attached to this degree. Article (3) cancels all that contradicts this decree. Article (4) says that this decree shall be published in the Official Gazette and, enforced from its date of issue.

The Ministry of Education, represented by the Citizenship Department, issued the fourth edition of the citizenship education Bulletin. It entitled "My Country  ...My responsibility". The edition talked about national responsibility and stressed that the responsibility in any country reflects the strength of its society construction, indicating the harmony, which governments have been working with for a long time with peoples, whether it comes from the laws and legislations through individual dealings that appear the extent of interest among members of the same group. This ...

The Sultanate, represented by the Ministry of Education, participated in the General Conference of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) which was under the theme of educational systems in the face of crises and emergencies of COVID-19. The Sultanate's delegation to the conference was headed by H E Dr. Hamoud bin Khalfan Al Harthi, Undersecretary of Ministry of Education for Education and Curriculum on behalf of Her Excellency the Minister of Education. The conference agenda included the opening session. Then in the first session, the Ministers reviewed ...

H.E.Dr.Madiha Al Shibaniyah, the, Minster of Education received H.E.Azza Al Ismaili, the Minister of Technology and Communication in her office today morning. The meeting aimed at reviewing a number of various issues such as the technical aspect of Ministry of Education and its future vision for distance learning, the challenges regarding this matter, suggested cooperation aspects between the two Ministries and the equipment at the information technology and communication field. Moreover, the attendance discussed the supportive digital systems of distance learning, digital empowerment for ...