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A unique invention by an Omani student
THERE is no limit to creativity. Innovation is not restricted to a certain age or place. This is a story about an eighteen-year old boy called Abdulrahman bin Saleem bin Salem al Jahdhami. This boy is from Samad A’shan, Wilayat Al Mudhibi. He is a Third Secondary student in the Azzan Bin Tameem School for Basic Education.

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Learning outdoors by GUTech students
TO learn more about the beauty of the Omani mountains and wadis and the science behind, ten students of the German University of Technology in Oman (GUTech) went with three visiting students from RWTH Aachen University and two GUTech professors on a geological tour to Wadi Al Abyad (Batinah region) last week.

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Teaching Responsibility, Co-operation, Future, Caring and Life
TEACHING is a great job. It is responsibility, co-operation, future and caring. It is life itself. If there are not any teachers, there would be no doctors, no lawyers, no scientists, no …….., no…….., no civilization. Civilization is based on teaching, which makes people soar so high to different skies of knowledge.

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What is E-Learning?
EDUCATORS have been very innovative and quick to adopt new means and technologies to promote education. For instance the printing press in the sixteenth century made it possible to afford personal copies of books, opening new opportunities to acquire knowledge. The developments of the postal services in the nineteenth century lead........

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Another milestone for SQU
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ARKING another milestone in its progress towards becoming an academic and research institution of excellence, the College of Agricultural & Marine Sciences (CAMS) at Sultan Qaboos University is set to introduce PhD programmes this year. The proposed programmes will build on the Masters’ programmes which have been running for nine years......

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Four Oman students win first phase of VCUQ design competition
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HE Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)Qatar has named four students from Oman as among the winners of the first phase of its 2008 Design Competition. The design competition provided VCU Qatar the opportunity to recognise the talents of young people throughout the Middle East, Asia and North Africa.

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Al Sahba School hosts English language competition
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HE girls of the English Club at Al Sahba School (Grade 5 to 10) in Al Amerat ignited a spark with a real enthusiasm to spread their English language knowledge in society and move the world in their own way. They organised an English Language Competition for 15 schools in the Wilayats of Al Amerat and Quriyat recently.

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TAISM community inaugurates new campus facilities
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HE American International School of Muscat (TAISM) students, parents, staff, board members and honored guests from the greater Muscat community came together recently at the school’s Sports Hall to celebrate the inauguration of TAISM’s new campus facilities. The facilities include the ‘Sur Library’, the ‘O’Shaughnessy Gallery’..................

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Switz Football School
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WITZ Football School, a great success since the opening in November, continues to grow with more youngsters registering to participate in the training on a daily basis. The football school helps them to improve their skills, to learn how they can be better footballers, to make friends. Located at Seeb’s Club old football pitch in Seeb.............

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ABQ holds 5th Annual Charity Day, raises over RO 1,000 for local charities
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N a highly commendable endeavour, Azzan Bin Qais (ABQ) Private School managed to raise over RO 1,000 at their recent 5th Annual Charity Day, thanks to the good efforts of the school’s Students Committee who had organised the event, held at Ghubra Park. Suad Mohammed al Mudhaffar, Principal of ABQ praised the good work put in by the committee...

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