Oman to mark International Literacy Day
Published: 02:09 PM,Sep 06,2023 | EDITED : 06:09 PM,Sep 06,2023
MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman will join UNESCO and world countries to mark the International Literacy Day which is celebrated on September 8 each year.
As part of the celebrations, the Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Education, will highlight the most significant efforts, projects and programmes it undertakes to eradicate illiteracy.
This year the International Literacy Day will be celebrated under the theme ‘Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies’.
Since the academic year 1973-1974, the Sultanate of Oman has been working hard to limit and eventually eliminate all forms of illiteracy: reading, writing, cultural and civilizational illiteracy. The country is committed to the principle of ‘the right to education for all’ without discrimination on the basis of genders or age groups in confirmation that education is a guaranteed right for all. In the Sultanate of Oman, education has no option but to cope with modern development and keep pace with international changes in the field of literacy. This could have been achieved only by moving from its simple concept of just eradicating alphabetical illiteracy and proceeding to a more comprehensive concept that keeps pace with sustainable development and the concept of continuous education and lifelong learning. Such a concept is, without doubt, consistent with the level of development that the Sultanate of Oman is witnessing as part of its strategy to achieve the goals of Oman Vision (2040).
As a result of the strategy adopted by the Ministry of Education, including special activities to achieve literacy programmes and projects and speed up the eradication of illiteracy, the Sultanate of Oman had seen its illiteracy rate dropping to 2.60 among the age group 15 years and over, according to the 2022 data of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
Worthy of noting, the number of teachers working in the literacy centres in the governorates in the academic year (2022-2023) stood at 8,631 whereas 2,623 adults were enrolled in literacy programmes in the same academic year. — ONA
As part of the celebrations, the Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Education, will highlight the most significant efforts, projects and programmes it undertakes to eradicate illiteracy.
This year the International Literacy Day will be celebrated under the theme ‘Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies’.
Since the academic year 1973-1974, the Sultanate of Oman has been working hard to limit and eventually eliminate all forms of illiteracy: reading, writing, cultural and civilizational illiteracy. The country is committed to the principle of ‘the right to education for all’ without discrimination on the basis of genders or age groups in confirmation that education is a guaranteed right for all. In the Sultanate of Oman, education has no option but to cope with modern development and keep pace with international changes in the field of literacy. This could have been achieved only by moving from its simple concept of just eradicating alphabetical illiteracy and proceeding to a more comprehensive concept that keeps pace with sustainable development and the concept of continuous education and lifelong learning. Such a concept is, without doubt, consistent with the level of development that the Sultanate of Oman is witnessing as part of its strategy to achieve the goals of Oman Vision (2040).
As a result of the strategy adopted by the Ministry of Education, including special activities to achieve literacy programmes and projects and speed up the eradication of illiteracy, the Sultanate of Oman had seen its illiteracy rate dropping to 2.60 among the age group 15 years and over, according to the 2022 data of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
Worthy of noting, the number of teachers working in the literacy centres in the governorates in the academic year (2022-2023) stood at 8,631 whereas 2,623 adults were enrolled in literacy programmes in the same academic year. — ONA