Ministry launches new individual licencing and electronic platform

Ministry launches new individual licencing and electronic platform

Muscat: The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation on Wednesday launched 'Individual Licencing' services and an electronic platform codenamed 'Training: A Hand That Builds Oman.' The step comes within the ministry's drive to develop a schema of private training in line with the government's digital transformation approach and future goals of Oman Vision 2040. It is hoped to constitute a new cornerstone in private training, provide a legal and professional climate and serve as an incubator to 'invest' the competences of national cadres and enable them to impart their expertise and experiences to society. In its first phase, the platform focuses on 'individual licencing', which is designed to enable people having expertise to offer quality training that contributes to upgrading cognitive economy. The applicants can register through the platform and get their prospective training programmes endorsed prior to being presented to the public. The second phase of licencing, currently being shaped out, covers 'institutional licencing, while the third phase will focus on "relations and partnerships". Dr Rahma Ibrahim Al Mahrouqi, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, who launched the platform, said that "The sector of training in the Sultanate has been accorded a great importance by the government