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thegoodprofessor · Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 79

They offer a lot for the furniture loan. I'm just wondering if anyone else has used this and knows the details. thanks

Furniture loan R.O. 1800 to be repaid as per civil council No 9/96.

Duffy · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Oman

It has to be paid back in one year, a big chunk out of your monthly salary.

Duffy Laughing

Space Teacher · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 36

It's a 4 year loan, decreasing by 25% per year. Paid by cheque once the bureaucratic paperwork is completed. I assume that is what you need to know.

I assume you are talking about the Min of Higher Ed???

Middle East Beast · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree

Duffy · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Oman

Well things must have changed in the MoHE, since I was working for them for 5 years in Salalah. I had my loan in 2006, would haver been nice to have it deducted over 4 years. I don't think you can work it off, too much paperwork for their admin. Rolling Eyes

Duffy

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Middle East Beast · Joined: 05 Mar 2008 Posts: 836 Location: Up a tree

caravanesque · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 16

According to a recent ministry source you don't have to pay anything back if you work for them for four years.

Space Teacher · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 36

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Well... now we have a couple different versions of what happens. Laughing

Perhaps someone with access to it could tell us what "civil council 9/96" says and whether the recruiters are following this rule properly.

VS
(with my employers in Oman, I was provided with furnished flats, so this was never an issue. The change appeared with the recruiter system)

caravanesque · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 16

Anyone with access to Oman civil council 9/96, be kind enough to enlighten us, please, without getting yourself deported, and in detail!

The ministry source, BTW, indicates reliable ministry HR, not a recruiter or recruiters.

Anything else on the role of the HE Ministry would be helpful too - I mean, what to expect during the pre-arrival and arrival, or settling in, phases.

Duffy · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Oman

thegoodprofessor · Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 79

I tend not to use credit but IF I end up in a non furnished house a furniture loan that I don't have to pay back would be nice.

They are welcome to the furniture when I leave LOL gessh then they could offer the next teacher a furnished house. Whatever it is I think getting it in writing may be essential

it's decision time and I wondered tonight if I could decision myself out of making a decision.

caravanesque · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 16

Good luck with your decisions, but inevitably you have to make those calculations and hope for the best.

Oman seems a decent destination in troubled times, though, life is still very simple and the people traditional and polite.

Suppose your current location is no longer Paris - probably that at the time of your ESL cafe registration - 'cause that would have been a real 'ouchy' setting for a decision like this. Muscat vs. Paris??