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Oman TV (Arabic: تلفزيون سلطنة عمان) is the national television channel broadcaster in the Sultanate of Oman. The channel began broadcasting from the city of Muscat on 17 November 1974, using Intelsat, [1] and from Salalah on 25 November 1975. [2] Since 1997, Oman TV has broadcast its programs through its website.
There were six free-to-air channels headquartered in Oman at the end of 2011, four of these privately owned. Only 7% of households have access to Pay television. [1] A reform in 2004 ended the state’s monopoly on television broadcasting. The first independent TV station Majan TV launched in 2009. In 2011, Jai Hind TV was launched in Oman. [1]
The Omani higher education system is relatively young, as the first public university in Oman, Sultan Qaboos University, was founded in 1986. Prior to the establishment of SQU, the government sent some students to pursue higher education studies in neighbouring Arab countries like UAE, Kuwait, Jordan and Egypt.
Prior to the establishment of MOHE, the Directorate General of Scholarship and Foreign Relations carried out a role similar to that of MOHE. After MOHE was established in 1994, [1] the General Directorate of Scholarships and Foreign Relations was transferred from the Ministry of Education to MOHE and additional responsibilities were assigned to MOHE involving the supervision of high education ...
Oman TV channels are controlled and regulated by the government through the Ministry of Information. Criticisms of the government, or the Sultan, are not taken lightly. In 2004, two Omani intellectuals called the government reforms a way to improve the image of Oman across the globe, on a program on the Iranian TV channel Al-Alam. [6]
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The Ministry of Education (MOE) is the governmental body in the Sultanate of Oman responsible for the educational system preceding university education (which is supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education). The Minister of Education in 2024 was Madeeha bint Ahmed bin Nassir al Shibaniyah. [1]
Following is a list of primary and secondary schools in the Asian country of Oman. Tertiary schools are included in the separate list of universities and colleges in Oman. Most of these schools are located in Muscat, the capital of Oman