Knowledge Management in Ministry of Education in Sultanate of Oman

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
IN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
In Sultanate of Oman
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About Ministry of Education, Oman
 The Ministry of Education is a major governmental body that is located
in Sultanate of Oman.
 The organization is mainly responsible for proper development of the
educational system preceding the university education (Saleh, Piaw and
Idris 2015).
 The development of the Ministry of Higher Education had started after
the start of renaissance period in the year 1970.
 The major responsibility of the Board is related to the ways by which
higher education can be managed by the Sultanate effectively.

Issues and Challenges
 The “head teachers and other senior administrators lacked management
skills.”
 There is also lack of trained teachers. The average loss of the teachers
is about 12% every year with about 40 to 45% being the trained ones
(Lindqvist, Nordanger and Carlsson 2014).
 Within more than three years, about 633 trained teachers have left the
public education sector for different reasons.
 Information and communication technology in different areas of the
education system is very poor as a result students are not getting
appropriate literacy knowledge.