School students represent 20% of total population

MUSCAT: The training sector within the Sultanate of Oman has grown dramatically over the last 50 years on account of important authorities funding.

In accordance with the newest report revealed by the Nationwide Centre for Statistics and Data (NCSI), the variety of colleges elevated from 16 in 1970, with simply 196 academics and seven,000 college students, to 67,263 colleges and 710,000 college students in the course of the educational yr 2021/2022. The general variety of pupils enrolled in authorities, personal, particular training, and worldwide colleges reached 898,000, a 12 per cent rise from 2020/21. It’s value mentioning that college college students account for 20 per cent of the Sultanate of Oman’s total inhabitants.

Greater training has undergone main transformation within the final two years to realize sustainability and the event of the academic system, probably the most important of which was the institution of the College of Expertise and Utilized Sciences, which included all technical faculties and faculties of utilized sciences underneath its umbrella.

Within the educational yr 2020/2021, there have been 66 private and non-private establishments, together with 38 authorities establishments classed as universities, college faculties, and specialised institutes, and 28 personal establishments, 9 of that are personal universities and the remainder are college faculties. These establishments educate roughly 121,000 college students, accounting for about 3 per cent of the general inhabitants, along with roughly 7,000 college students learning overseas.

The information demonstrates the Sultanate of Oman’s dedication to attaining the objectives of training for everybody, probably the most important of that are: Enabling youngsters to finish elementary faculty, as Oman attained a complete enrolment fee within the main stage of (100 per cent). As for the enlargement of early childhood care and training programmes, the enrolment fee of youngsters has fallen. The whole preschool training in kindergartens reached about 25 per cent of the entire inhabitants on the age of 4-5 years within the educational yr (2020/2021 in comparison with 52 per cent within the educational yr 2019/2020), and this fall is because of lower within the variety of personal colleges which gives training service for this stage because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The inhabitants’s illiteracy fee fell to round 0.5 per cent for the age vary of 15-44.

The report additionally said that there have been roughly 320 youngsters’s nurseries in 2021, up from solely 16 in 1989, with Muscat topping the listing with roughly 179 services, whereas the Governorate of Al Wusta has no nurseries registered. The variety of youngsters underneath the age of three who’re registered in nurseries is 6,073, a 6 per cent rise over the earlier yr.