(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- The Education Council, on Monday, decided to extend the ban on issuing licences for setting up private colleges and universities for another three years.
The council took the decision as part of its efforts to regularise investment in higher education and promote the quality of services rendered in the sultanate.
The council held its first meeting of the year under the chairmanship of H E Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal al Busaidi, Minister of Diwan of Royal Court.
H E Sayyid Khalid commended the steady efforts being made by the ministries and other education organisations, as well as the projects that serve the education system in the sultanate.
He also praised the efforts made by the Secretariat General of the Education Council and its executive committees in relation to studying the issues and proposing visions that serve the education process.
He requested organisations in the education system to prepare visions and recommendations to implement the prioritised projects till achieving the plans and programmes approved by the National Education Strategy 2040.
The council also discussed a report prepared by the Secretariat General on the education status for the people with disabilities in the sultanate. It reviewed the efforts made by the ministries and pubic organisations to provide education services to this category and the development aspects that serve the education programmes presented. It discussed care and rehabilitation aspects and the suitable means to promote them. The Education Council gave instructions to form a committee for following up the education services of different kinds and stages and to promote them in line with the requirements of the future visions. The committee will also follow up the preparation of the national plan for the education of people with disabilities.
The council also reviewed a report prepared by the Ministry of Manpower on the measures taken to set up a Technical College in the Governorate of Musandam.
The council reviewed several other reports and circulars from various organisations.
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