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Education and Research Committee discusses status and future of teachers 

09 Jun 2020

The Education and Research Committee of the State Council on Tuesday hosted HE.Dr.Said Bin Hamed Amed Bin Said Al Rubaii, Secretary-General of the Education Council and several officials, within the framework of its study titled “The status and future of teachers in the Sultanate”. 

 

 


During the tenth meeting of the first annual session of the seventh term, chaired by Hon.Mohammed bin Hamdan bin Sulaiman al Toobi, Committee Head and attended by the honorable committee members, and a number of General Secretariat employees, the committee discussed several important topics related to the study.

 

This included: Legislations related to selection, qualification, appointment, and promotions, the acceptance ratios for colleges of education, training programs and plans for on-the-job work for teachers, ethics and values of the profession, and the laws regulating them, in addition to informing about education policies and strategy.

 

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

 

At the conclusion of the meeting, the committee was briefed about the new issues on its agenda, and took appropriate decisions regarding them.

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