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[kylemcgee]

Hello -

I have been discussing a teaching position with the Oman College of Management and Technology. Does anyone have any experiences working at this school? Good? Bad?

http://www.omancollege.edu.om/

Thanks for the help!

Kyle

[veiledsentiments]

They are quite new and no teachers have posted about it as yet. I see from its website that it is affiliated with Al-Zahra, which you could search... though not much has been posted on it either. Both are Jordanian organized. They do have quite an informative website, which even lists the textbooks used for their courses. I noted on the faculty list that all those listed are either Arabs or Pakistanis... no Westerners at all - if that matters.

One detail that I noticed of interest - to be exempted from foundations courses, there are the required test scores:

Students with a minimum score of 450 on the TOEFL
Students with a band 4 minimum score on the IELTS

So, Language Center students will be very low as is common in Oman. It would be informative if someone could tell us about their pay and benefit package and how it compares to the usual choices in Oman.

VS