MUSCAT : The Educational Council on the College of Know-how and Utilized Sciences (UTAS) held its fifth assembly for the 2025/2026 educational 12 months immediately, chaired by His Excellency Dr. Mentioned Hamad Al Rubaii, Vice Chancellor of the College and Chairman of the Educational Council, within the presence of council members on the college headquarters in Muscat Governorate.
In the course of the assembly, the council mentioned a variety of matters associated to the event of the tutorial system and the enhancement of the standard of instructing and studying on the college. Among the many matters mentioned was updating the formulation of program studying outcomes on the School of Schooling in Al Rustaq to align with the necessities of the Nationwide {Qualifications} Framework and the college’s graduate attributes, whereas additionally strengthening the alignment of educational packages with labour market wants and the speedy developments within the training sector.
The council reviewed the efforts carried out by the school in the course of the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 educational years. These efforts included the formation of a specialised educational committee to assessment studying outcomes, conducting benchmarking research with a variety of native, regional, and worldwide universities, in addition to implementing coaching packages and workshops to assist college members in designing learning-outcome-based educational packages.
The council additionally mentioned the college’s Instructing and Studying Framework, which is taken into account one of many foremost pillars of methods associated to educational affairs. The framework goals to manage and information instructing and studying strategies and actions, whereas enhancing consistency and readability in academic practices throughout the college’s branches.
As well as, the council authorised an Arabic language expertise course for non-native audio system meant for worldwide college students finding out on the college. This comes as a part of efforts to assist academic packages directed at worldwide college students and improve their language expertise in ways in which contribute to their educational and cultural integration.
The council additionally reviewed the Educational Workers Workload Information, which goals to manage the distribution of instructing hundreds amongst college members in response to their educational ranks, supervisory roles, and assigned tasks. The information seeks to make sure the optimum use of human assets, contribute to attracting and retaining educational expertise, and improve the standard of educational work on the college.
On the conclusion of the assembly, the Educational Council emphasised the significance of strengthening integration between educational and sensible features and adopting one of the best trendy academic practices to advance the academic course of throughout the college’s branches. The council additionally careworn the necessity to proceed creating educational packages and academic methods in ways in which improve the standard of studying outcomes and provide the labour market with certified nationwide competencies, in keeping with the aims of Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040 within the increased training and innovation sector.
