Oman

The purpose of this article is to explain the existing educational system in The Sultanate of Oman. The Omani government committed itself to ambitious reforms in education at all levels in anticipation of the kind of institutional challenges - particularly those in increasingly globalized labor markets - that young Omanis were likely to face in the coming decades. Since then, the government and ministries in charge of education have designed and implemented a series of initiatives that the author anticipates will go a considerable distance to achieve the objectives and general goals which are highlighted in Vision 2020. The author argues that these initiatives do not go quite far enough to close the gap between policy and practice.