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Education and Research Committee discusses with MoHE officials, status and future of teachers 

Today, the Education and Research Committee of the State Council hosted HE.Dr.Abdullah Mohammed Al Sarmi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and several officials of the Ministry, within the framework of its study “The status and future of teachers in the Sultanate”. 

The thirteenth meeting of the first annual session of the seventh term headed by Hon.Mohammed bin Hamdan bin Sulaiman al Toobi, Committee Head was held in the presence of the honorable committee members and Secretariat staff employees in the meeting hall of Council of Oman.

The committee discussed with the Undersecretary of MoHE and ministry officials the legislations related to selection, qualification, appointment, promotions and acceptance ratios for college admissions. The committee also discussed on-the-job training programs and plans for the teachers, ethics and values ​​of the teaching profession, and laws regulating it, in addition to informing about education policies and strategies.

The delegation of the Ministry included Dr.Abdullah Ali Al-Shibli. Director General of the Colleges of Applied Sciences, Jokha bint Abdullah Al Shekaili, Assistant Director General of Private Colleges and Universities, Dr.Halima Bint Saleh Al Badawi, Assistant Director General for Academic Affairs at the General Directorate of Colleges of Applied Sciences, and Dr. Ahmed bin Juma Al-Riyami, General Director Assistant for Academic Affairs Support at the General Directorate of Colleges of Applied Sciences.

It is worth noting that the Education Committee’s study on “The status and future of teachers in the Sultanate” aims to study the mechanisms for selecting, preparing, training, operating and motivating the teacher and proposing ways to develop them, reviewing the current legislation and laws regulating the education profession, and proposing new legislations that guarantee upgrading the education profession and the social status of the teacher. 

It also aims to examine the challenges facing the teaching profession, propose ways to overcome it and set a time frame for its implementation, in addition to coming up with recommendations and results in support of efforts aimed at developing the educational process through upgrading the level of performance of its most important component, the teacher.

At the end of its meeting, the committee briefed on the new issues listed on its agenda, and took appropriate decisions regarding them.