The Sultanate of Oman will mark this Thursday its Wonderful Nationwide Day, commemorating the Al Busaidi State Basis Day on Nov. 20 every year. This historic event embodies the patriotic spirit of this blessed nation’s folks as they advance with renewed willpower to construct their homeland below the management of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik.
The profound pleasure of the nation’s Monarch within the folks of Oman displays the deep unity between the Chief and his loyal residents. This nationwide cohesion represents a basic ingredient within the success of achievements realized throughout this period of renewed Renaissance. All through historical past, the Omanis have stood united as an impregnable fortress, guided by enlightened religion.
The supreme dedication to growing schooling, increased schooling, scientific analysis and innovation has been manifested in vital accomplishments aligned with “Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040” priorities. Throughout his go to to Sultan Faisal bin Turki College for Boys within the Wilayat of Al Amerat, His Majesty the Sultan emphasised the essential significance of equipping college students with information in trendy expertise and integrating it into academic processes throughout colleges destined to turn out to be future fashions. The whole variety of educators reached 66,379 female and male academics, distributed throughout 1,303 colleges. The variety of administrative and technical employees in authorities colleges amounted to 11,183, comprising 4,420 males and 6,763 females. Relating to the variety of academics in particular schooling colleges, it totaled 241 female and male educators, with the mixture rely of administrative personnel in particular schooling colleges being 46 female and male directors.
His Majesty Haitham Bin Tarik, Sultan of Oman
Throughout this yr, 16 new faculty buildings have been acquired to be operationalized throughout 9 academic directorates, comprising 4 colleges within the Muscat Governorate academic directorate, three colleges within the North Al Batinah academic directorate, two colleges within the South Al Batinah Governorate academic directorate, along with two colleges within the Dhofar Governorate academic directorate, and one faculty in every of the A’Dakhiliyah Governorate academic directorate, the South A’Sharqiyah Governorate academic directorate, the North A’Sharqiyah Governorate academic directorate, the A’Dhahirah Governorate academic directorate and the Al Wusta Governorate academic directorate. The development of those colleges has noticed the best requirements of safety and security.
Oman’s schooling sector demonstrates constructive improvement in educational and analysis infrastructure, as evidenced by the 2026 rankings from the British establishment Quacquarelli Symonds. The QS World College Rankings 2026 options 5 Omani increased schooling establishments, with Sultan Qaboos College (SQU) attaining exceptional progress by advancing 28 positions to safe 334th place globally.
The Sultanate of Oman is making devoted and systematic efforts to bolster scientific analysis and innovation, a dedication that has yielded vital returns as evidenced by its notable ascent of 10 positions within the World Mental Property Group’s World Innovation Index over a four-year interval, advancing from 84th to 74th place. Concurrently, the nation has achieved substantial enchancment in innovation outputs, climbing 23 positions from 109th to 86th place.
Below the tutorial sector’s Efficiency-Based mostly Institutional Funding Program, help has been prolonged to roughly 2,228 analysis tasks between 2018 and 2024. The previous yr alone witnessed the funding of 475 analysis initiatives with a complete allocation of roughly 2.4 million Omani rial ($6.24 million). The Strategic Analysis Program, designed to deal with particular challenges inside authorities entities, has supported 74 analysis tasks. In the meantime, the commercial sector’s “EJAAD” Program has facilitated 61 analysis tasks with a complete funding of two.5 million rial.
The Sultanate of Oman has established a complete framework of 13 distinct packages devoted to fostering innovation and constructing nationwide capabilities. These initiatives embrace the Nationwide Program for Supporting Innovation Facilities in Increased Schooling Establishments, the Scholar Commencement Tasks Transformation into Begin-ups Program, and the Falling Partitions Competitors. The ecosystem is additional strengthened by Nationwide Scientific Analysis Awards that acknowledge excellence throughout a number of sectors, whereas creating pathways for Omani innovators and researchers to take part in prestigious worldwide boards together with the Geneva Worldwide Exhibition of Innovations, the Kuala Lumpur Worldwide Invention and Innovation Exhibition and the Lindau Nobel Laureate Conferences.
Royal Opera Home in Muscat, Oman / Courtesy of Embassy of Oman in Seoul
The Sultanate of Oman is strategically enhancing its nationwide scientific publishing infrastructure and elevating the requirements of its peer-reviewed journals, in direct alignment with its transition towards a knowledge-based economic system. This systematic improvement of scientific analysis and educational publishing frameworks represents a basic pillar in constructing a knowledge-driven society and strengthening the nation’s aggressive standing globally.
Within the area of improvement and social safety, the Sultanate of Oman persists in its efforts to construct a complete social care system. This method goals to supply social and financial help and empowerment to all segments of society, together with the household, the aged, individuals with disabilities, ladies, kids and civil society organizations. The final word goal is to forge a society that’s each economically and socially empowered by the introduction of a set of recent packages and tasks throughout numerous developmental sectors. These initiatives are designed to advance social work, help and empower probably the most weak teams, set up efficient social safety mechanisms and strengthen household cohesion and social solidarity. That is along with activating group partnerships and enhancing useful resource effectivity to ship high-quality social companies.
The social safety system within the Sultanate of Oman has undergone a complete and qualitative transformation throughout all ranges and trajectories. The Social Safety Legislation has redefined the very idea of safety to embody all levels of life, from childhood to superior age, establishing packages that cowl retirement, end-of-service advantages, maternity, incapacity, direct money safety for limited-income households and financial savings.
For the reason that system’s inauguration, beneficiaries have exceeded 63.6 % of the goal inhabitants. Moreover, novel mechanisms have been launched to help probably the most weak teams, such because the family earnings help profit, which ensures the exact and equitable supply of assist to its rightful recipients.
Complementing the institutional improvement framework, which mandates strong governance, the method of implementing adjustments to restructure Oman’s pension funds has been initiated. This endeavor paves the way in which for a brand new period commensurate with nationwide and worldwide aspirations. The strategic path for the 2024-2025 transition section was formulated, attaining an implementation charge exceeding 90 % for the Fund. This progress is meticulously designed to domesticate and improve its inner and developmental capacities by the supply of clever and proactive companies that fulfill stakeholder necessities and elevate satisfaction. It additionally gives complete protection for all societal segments not encompassed by the social safety system, concurrently bettering all related advantages.
Statistics launched by the Social Safety Fund on the finish of September 2025 point out the participation of 92 energetic entities from the general public sector and 29,370 from the personal sector. The variety of insured Omani employees surpassed 604,000 residents, with over 121,000 energetic pensions disbursed. These figures epitomize the numerous progress achieved throughout the social safety system and affirm the Social Safety Fund’s emergence as a regional exemplar of transparency and institutional efficacy.
Omani Ambassdor to Korea Zakariya Al Saadi / Courtesy of Embassy of Oman in Seoul
Relating to the sector for individuals with disabilities, His Majesty the Sultan issued his lofty directives in September 2025 to ascertain a brand new sector on the degree of an Undersecretary throughout the construction of the Ministry of Social Growth. This sector is tasked with overseeing all issues that might elevate the companies offered to individuals with disabilities. To formalize this, His Majesty the Sultan issued Royal Decree No. 92/2025 in October, promulgating the Legislation on the Rights of Individuals with Disabilities. This legislation embodies Oman’s dedication to preserving the dignity of individuals with disabilities and guaranteeing their rights. Furthermore, His Majesty issued his royal orders in April, approving 7 million rial to ascertain the Autism Spectrum Dysfunction Care and Rehabilitation Centre and to review the wants of the governorates for such amenities. This step displays the reinforcement of the rights of individuals with autism spectrum dysfunction and the creation of an appropriate and supportive setting that contributes to bettering their high quality of life.
Al Jalali Fort in Outdated Muscat, Oman / Courtesy of Embassy of Oman in Seoul
Numerous specialised rehabilitative and productive packages and tasks are being applied. The Little one Safety Information and the Nationwide Information for the Care of Youngsters in Foster Households have been launched. Moreover, baby care amenities and youth houses present another household setting that gives complete care encompassing dwelling, academic, social, psychological and well being features. The variety of kids enrolled within the facilities by the top of the primary half of 2025 reached 83 kids, consisting of 33 males and 50 females, whereas the variety of these enrolled in youth houses reached 77 youths. In the meantime, the house care program for the aged served 1,327 beneficiaries.
The Sultanate of Oman confers supreme precedence upon the well being care sector, with the noble goal of delivering complete and multifaceted medical care to its residents and residents, embracing prevention, therapy, rehabilitation and well being promotion. A strategic path enshrining well being as a paramount precedence inside Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040 has been articulated, crystalized within the pursuit of “a pioneering well being system ruled by international requirements.”
The nationwide report monitoring the indications of Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040 for the well being sector revealed conspicuous development in nationwide indicators all through 2024 and 2025. The Sultanate of Oman ascended to fifty fifth place globally and sixth throughout the Center East and North Africa within the Legatum Prosperity Index’s well being pillar, representing an development of six ranks since 2019.
The inauguration of the Nationwide Well being Coverage constitutes a definitive street map for establishing an built-in and sustainable well being system. In parallel, specialised initiatives devoted to the enhancement of maternal and baby well being have diligently pursued the refinement of specialised companies through the Nationwide Screening Program for Non-Communicable Illnesses, the Diabetes Care Program, superior fertility companies, oncology care, cardiac care and the fight of tuberculosis and respiratory ailments.
Masterplan of Sultan Haitham Metropolis in Muscat, Oman / Courtesy of Embassy of Oman in Seoul
Pertaining to the event and enlargement of well being infrastructure, the yr 2024 and the graduation of 2025 have been marked by the inauguration of 10 well being establishments, accompanied by the enlargement and enhancement of amenities for 7 hospitals and 21 extra well being establishments.
Work progresses assiduously on a portfolio of main ventures, which stay below building, improvement and enlargement. These embody the Nationwide Digital Well being Centre and 9 hospitals.
The Sultanate of Oman has additional secured qualitative triumphs within the realm of organ transplantation, most outstanding amongst them the Nationwide Centre’s profitable implantation of a synthetic coronary heart, the indigenization of organ transplant companies, and the profitable recommencement of corneal transplant operations at Al Nahdha Hospital. Current endeavors are centered upon the institution of a watch financial institution, aiming to attain self-sufficiency inside a five-year horizon. The inaugural section of the organ transplantation program witnessed a pronounced improve in kidney, liver and corneal transplant procedures, topped by the efficiency of the primary coronary heart transplant for an Omani citizen throughout the Sultanate of Oman. A regulatory statute was additionally promulgated to make sure the safety of the rights of donors and recipients inside this important area.
Numerous referral hospitals within the Sultanate of Oman have been honored with worldwide accreditation, particularly Al Masarra Hospital, Nizwa Hospital and A’Rustaq Hospital, acknowledged for his or her dedication to affected person security. Furthermore, Khoula Hospital was bestowed with the worldwide “Child-Pleasant Hospital” accreditation by the World Well being Group and UNICEF, whereas the Royal Hospital secured the Platinum Standing from Accreditation Canada Worldwide (ACI), counted among the many most preeminent and distinguished worldwide accreditations.
The Nuclear Medication Division on the Royal Hospital has triumphantly concluded the High quality Assurance Audit in Nuclear Medication Practices, carried out by the Worldwide Atomic Power Company, attaining an distinctive rating of 92.5 %. This distinguished outcome notably exceeds the worldwide benchmark, which ranges from 56.6 % to 87.9 %, thereby elevating the division into the echelon of world-class amenities distinguished by their unwavering dedication to probably the most rigorous requirements of high quality and security.
Within the realm of immunizations, the Sultanate of Oman has attained a preeminent protection charge for important childhood vaccines, surpassing 99 %.
The Council of Oman, comprising its two chambers — the State Council and the Shura Council — perpetuates its profound dedication to integration and unified nationwide motion with the nation’s numerous establishments throughout all spheres. This dedication is channeled by its legislative mandate, encompassing its entrusted obligations in reviewing draft legal guidelines and worldwide agreements, in addition to proposing and refining laws, all to bolster the nation’s developmental march. In parallel, the Omani judiciary strives to anchor a progressive and complex justice system, predicated on unparalleled effectivity, the expeditious adjudication of circumstances, and the streamlining of authorized procedures, thereby aligning with the imperatives of nationwide improvement and international financial transformations. Furthermore, the Sultanate of Oman assiduously cultivates strong monetary and administrative oversight by championing the rules of transparency, accountability and institutional and societal partnership, which collectively serve to embed the pillars of sound governance and advance the conclusion of the U.N. Sustainable Growth Objectives.
