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1st Sgt Welsh
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veiledsentiments
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I remember reading the same title about Oman in the early 1990s. There have never been enough jobs for the locals... and the more intelligent of them told me back in 2000 that they knew that they were going to have to migrate to get work... just as their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had done.
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Tazz
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| Put simply, whatever qualifications and certificates are obtained from the Omani education system- how many of these students are actually 'work ready' in terms of motivation and attitude? |
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MuscatGary
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| Having worked there for four years I would never hire any Omani with 'qualifications' from any Omani institution except SQU. I've seen the grade 'easing' at first hand not to mention the cheating which is 'not seen.' |
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1st Sgt Welsh
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| Put simply, whatever qualifications and certificates are obtained from the Omani education system- how many of these students are actually 'work ready' in terms of motivation and attitude? |
Based on the work ethic that most of my students displayed, they would have been considered unemployable back in the West. I think one of the reasons for the, dare I say, 'work-shy' culture that you find in so much of the GCC may have something to do with the fact that they never really experienced an industrial revolution.The history of slave ownership probably didn't help either. Anyway, there was no period in their history where locals working fourteen hours a day on the factory floor was considered as a 'step up'. They went from being poor and involved in mostly low-intensity occupations (fishing, subsistence farming etc.) to suddenly becoming wealthy, without really having done anything to have earned it. Most of the unpleasant, menial jobs were/are simply allocated to cheap foreign labor and, in the jobs taken by Omanis, not a hell of a lot was expected of them in terms of productivity.
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nomad soul
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| Internships, apprenticeships, on-the-job training, and part-time employment would certainly be invaluable. The UAE has already embraced some of these work-ready strategies. |
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madrileno
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The headline should read, ("educated" and unemployable).
I have to agree with MuscatGary. Credentials and degrees from the Gulf are nothing near the standards you'd find in applicants from N America, Europe, or Japan, and quite frankly considered useless, even between different Gulf countries.
The disorganization in colleges (even in ones that have been open for years), rampant cheating, and doctoring of grades by administrations who don't want to deal with student protests, or just simply want to collect more government funds are all contributing factors to the mess that is higher education in Oman and the rest of the Gulf. And that's just in the ministry public colleges. Private institutions are heaps worse. |
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