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In supporting efforts to achieve the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Education, which is to provide quality, equitable and inclusive education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for everybody, the world celebrates the international day of education. It adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018 to be on 24 January of every year as the International Day of Education. The logo of International day this year is (Restore and Renew Education for Covid-19 Generation).  Since the dawn of the blessed renaissance of the late Sultan of Oman, the Sultan Qaboos, the Sultanate Government has given high priority to education in its successive development plans, the most important of which is the future vision of the Omani economy 2020 and the future vision of Oman 2040. The government also has begun to spread the education everywhere in the Sultanate and making it a basic right for every child and compulsory until the end of basic education phase. Moreover, the government and has developed programs to improve the efficiency and quality of the education system, the performance of the teacher and the evaluation system to measure student achievement. In the Era of Renewed Renaissance, under His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik Al Said, continued paying attention to the education field as reflected in his speech on February 23, 2020. When he said, that giving attention to education sector of its various levels and providing a supportive and stimulating environment for scientific research and innovation will be his national priorities, and will provide it with all the means of empowerment, as the basis through which our children will be able to contribute to building the demands of the next phase.

Furthermore, the indicators of the report "Education in the Sultanate from Illiteracy to Postgraduate Education 2020," issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information, confirmed that the Sultanate has made significant progress in the indicators of the World Education 2030, and noted the steady growth in enrolment indicators at all levels of school education. The report also indicates that the number of schools in the Sultanate has increased to 1.163 in all governorates, with 56,899 teachers and 637 thousand students. The Sultanate is also interested in students in special education schools, as well as international schools targeting foreign communities.  After, the emergence of the COVID19 pandemic in late 2019, the Ministry of Education has made great efforts to find appropriate alternatives for the continuity of education and taking into account the priority of safety of students and administrative and teaching authorities. The community participation played a big role to suggest several alternatives for safe operation of schools for the 2020/2021 school year. The Ministry has set up a "technical committee" to study all possible hypotheses when reopening schools, and to propose safety procedures within schools. The alternative adopted by the High Commission to examine the mechanism for dealing with developments resulting from the spread of the Corona virus (Cuvid19) was Hybrid Education, which combines the direct education that students need through their presence in school, with e learning with the online educational platforms provided by the Ministry.