It is time to involve university students for Oman Vision 2040

It is time to involve university students for Oman Vision 2040

As an academic, I have the privilege to see the most ground breaking researches by final year university students which can add value to the 2040 Vision but they seem to get wasted because no one looks at them outside the classrooms.

For the last few years, I tried to get in touch with many decision makers who have the power to take forward researches of these brilliant students but the bureaucracy involved defeats the purpose of economic advancement.

I wish there was the right pedestal where the well executed students projects can be examined and according to their merits, adopted to help the Vision 2040. A national committee needs to be set up that will have a specific task of hosting students to present their projects and filtered through to find which ones can be taken to the next step.

In 2019, I attended a forum of the UK Research Centre for Academic Excellence. I was amazed when it was revealed that over 30 per cent of the researches conducted by British university students in the last 25 years, were adopted to be part of the economic activities of the UK government.

In the United Sates, there is a Committee in the Senate