SQU law students on sit-in

On Monday this week, SQU law students carried out a sit-in in front of the administration building in SQU campus in groups of both males and females coming from their college in Watiya ( the only college based out the SQU campus) seeking to meet the Vice Chancellor of SQU Dr. Ali Al-Bimani to hand over their requests to re-systemize the degree plan of their program and cancel branching out into specializations of ( general law, private law and commercial law) and requesting to graduate with the degree of general law program that combines the three together as it is applied in some other law colleges.

After researches and interviews with law people, those students came out with the fact that according to the program they follow now and specializing in one of the branches mentioned above will result insufficiency in their knowledge and skills of their field. And will decrease the opportunities of hiring them after graduation. In one of the interviews they were told explicitly by a manager of a firm “I’d better hire one Sudanese or Egyptian general law graduate rather than three Omanis”.

Anyway, their claims to meet the Vice Chancellor did not succeed, instead they met Dr. Said Al-Yahyai SQU Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Community Service who convinced them that there is no use of what they are doing and there is no chance to change anything in the degree plan as it’s approved by the board of trustees, and they should better educate themselves on their own if they find any insufficiency in their program.

Law students were not convinced and getting ready for the next step.

It’s nice seeing young Omanis taking such actions when it comes to their future.