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http://www.timesofoman.com/news/36608/Article-Omanisation-drive-spurs-exit-of-82-000-expats-from-Oman

As many as 82,000 expatriates working in the private sector have left their jobs between January 2013 and May 2014, National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) data reveals.


100,000 expats to lose jobs in Omanisation
http://www.timesofoman.com/news/29950/Article-100-000-expats-to-lose-jobs-in-Omanisation
More than 100,000 jobs are to be stripped from expatriates and given to Omanis as the government works to redress the imbalance in the Sultanate's employment market.

There is a serious push and it is not going to exclude teaching jobs.

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Yes, but in education the change will be significantly slower. In education, it has been going on gradually since the late 1990s as students have moved out of SQU to the public schools and others getting overseas advanced degrees.

This really should have been started 20 years ago.... before young Omanis had lost the idea that they can and should work since Oman doesn't have the resources of other countries in the Gulf allowed its citizens to be drones. (in the beehive meaning, not current military usage of the term)

VS

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My family moved to Kuwait in 1964 for a better life, which it did turn out to be in many ways. But I left in 1973 after completing high school because the writing was on the wall even then. It was the best decision of my life. The last member of the family departed Q8 before Iraq invaded! Now, in middle age, I cherish the many fruit of that decision. I have children and grandchildren, nephews, nieces and their offspring, and they have a sense of belonging in their land.

Like then and now, the Middle East Gulf countries would not function for even a day without the inhuman toil and sacrifice of expatriate workers from a myriad of surrounding LD countries. I was a Oman many times, and the repatriation of foreign workers and Omanization was in the news at least once a year.

The Omanis more and more are starting to act like their richer neighbours, and this is their undoing like the others.

PS: Nice to see that VS is still around providing her insightful commentary.

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