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MUSCAT -- The Omanisation of teachers in more than 1,056 public schools has reached 89 per cent and will soon cross the figure of 90 per cent. Currently, hardly 11 per cent of the teaching jobs are held by expatriates. Administrative positions in public school have reached 100 per cent Omanisation. This was stated by Yahya bin Saud al Sulaimi, Minister of Education, in comments to the Observer. Al Sulaimi said, "The rate of Omanisation of teachers more than doubled in the decade between 1990 and 2000. The rate of Omanisation of supervisors also doubled in the decade between 1990 and 2000, and then more than doubled again in the three-year period between 2000 and 2003.
This process continues with the same vigour". He said the ministry has completed 10 years of implementing Basic Education aimed at reforming the educational system. Basic education, which meets students' basic education needs in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, enabling them to continue their education or training based on their interests, aptitudes and dispositions, and enabling them to face the challenges of their present circumstances and future developments, has been continuing since 1998.
By the academic year 2008-09, there were a total of 759 basic schools. The first student cohort to complete the ten yeas Basic Education programme was in June 2007. The new Post-Basic Education programme has been continuing since 2007. This programme is designed to build on the reforms introduced in the First (grades 1 to 4) and Second Cycle (grades 5 to 10) Basic Education programmes. The Post-Basic Education focuses on developing problem-solving thinking and skills related to independent and continuous learning in carrying out research.
On the whole, basic education aims at the development of the different sides of the learner's personality, a thorough and complementary development within the principles of the Islam and Omani cultural values. Al Sulaimi said, "The ministry has set up a National Career Centre, which caters to the needs of students, and also helps adult job-seekers and offers specific employment support to women".
Girls' education
On the issue of girls' education, Al Sulaimi said, "By the end of 1970, only 1,136 girls were receiving education, and all of these were at the elementary level. The percentage of female school students has increased from 12.7 per cent in 1971-72 to 48.5 per cent in 2008/2009, when the number of girls attending school totalled over 265,000". In all Basic Education Cycle One schools (i.e. grades 1-4), the classes are co-educational. In General Education and in all other grades in Basic Education, separate schools have been established for boys and girls. In 2008/2009 there were a total of 472 co-educational schools and 221 girls' schools.
In 2008/2009, female teachers accounted for 26,126 out of a total teaching force of 43,149. Female teachers make up about 70 per cent of the Basic Education teaching force due to the ministry's policy that all teachers in the first cycle of Basic Education should be female. An important positive effect of this policy is that it provides increased employment opportunities in a culture that considers teaching to be a very acceptable profession for women.
On the issue of information technology, the minister said, during the last few years, the number of computers and schools with computers has grown dramatically in Oman. In the first cycle of Basic Education, all students learn about information technology in the learning resource centre (LRC). Besides getting hands-on computer experience, they learn how information is recorded, organised and communicated within society. In the second cycle of Basic Education, students are assigned lessons on IT, which are held in the computer classroom. The schools also promote the use of computers in Islamic studies, Arabic, social studies, English, mathematics and science.
In language classes, this may include learning how to use spell and grammar check and page layout. In mathematics, the use of spreadsheet applications helps students gain a better understanding of the fundamental concepts of data management, and in science subjects, students learn to sort and classify experimental data with the help of a database. OmantelOmantel
has recently begun to supply high-speed Internet connections throughout the country. An agreement between the Ministry of Education and OmantelOmantel has been reached that will allow schools to apply for this connection at a greatly reduced rate. By Hassan Kamoonpuri
© Oman Daily Observer 2009
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