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Graduate employability is a massive challenge facing higher education in the Sultanate of Oman as employers face the prospect of continuously developing their Omani workforce. Are the higher education...

Good decisions today, could prove to be bad decisions tomorrow... such is the nature of life, the way the world turns, and the changing face of our societies, and from that perspective, I must support...

On Friday, FC Nizwa looks to remember, honour, and celebrate the life of a promising young footballer, Muhammed Shahir, a well-respected member of their team and local community who had a cardiac...

What about that Cinderella story? Though we mostly know it as that, in fact the English language version is of a Brothers Grimm written tale of the ‘Little Ash Girl,’ or ‘Aschenputtel’ in...

Lucky, fortunate, charmed, favoured, propitious, felicitous, providential, serendipitous, or privileged, some of us are just born that way, aren’t we? Some of us would fall in a swamp and come up...

Job Vacancy: Teacher. Short workdays, weekends off, long vacation and all public holidays, free training, guidance, and support, come and be a part of a highly respected, highly regarded community...

Having lived in Oman for more than a decade, I can reveal that one of the most refreshing, revitalising aspects of living in the interior of the Sultanate of Oman, in sleepy Birkat al Mouz, near...

Why would you want to play sports? Or for those less active, why would you even want to watch sports? After all, there are plenty who don’t watch, don’t play, and don’t even care about sport....

Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has celebrated an astonishing 70 years as the nation’s ruling monarch during recent days, demonstrating an incomparable class, composure, and resilience,...

What gets you up in the morning? Is it a genuine enthusiasm for the day ahead, an eagerness to meet whatever life will throw at you that day? Or is it that if you stay in bed, you don’t get paid,...

I don’t know that there is too much to really concern the population currently, even though the price of oil has dropped a little, as the market still looks remarkably settled given the volatility...

Though what we think contributes to who we are, it’s our actions that define us, whether as individuals, communities, societies, nations, regions, races, cultures, or... whatever.Our thoughts, our...

Bathing in the almost euphoric sentiments of the Eid observance, must offer some recognition of the absolute notions of salvation and relief must positively impact upon those who are under pressure,...

Talk is cheap, so the old saying goes, but that is just another easy thing to say, and especially when used as part of a sarcastic ‘putting down', of another’s opinion, which we are all entitled...

One can only applaud the recently announced government initiative to target premature deaths resulting from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as an indication that the Sultanate of Oman is not only...

I will never forget how starkly my selfish perspective of Ramadhan, as little more than an inconvenience, was sharply rebuffed by one of my students more than a decade ago. Saying, with a twinkle in...

How are the mighty fallen? It’s an old phrase, originally from what was known as the Great Bible to be exact, of 1539, the book of Samuel 1:19, and reads as, “Oh howe are the myghtie...

I always thought that ‘retro', was an abbreviation of retrospective, which is defined by Collins as, “feelings or opinions concerning things that have happened in the past.” Yet Merriam’s...

“Sleep,” I muttered from under my blanket and pillow, “I know I forsook you when I was a child, but I yearn for you today, so much.” Who, after all, doesn’t like to sleep? Yes, hardly...

It really is ironic, isn’t it? Here we are, having ploughed our way through a couple of petrol ‘shocks,’ a cyclone or two, and a global pandemic, to feel we can begin to relax a little, and what...