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.
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Is this new stream system new to the law college?
It is really good seeing Omani students take action ! (well usuallhy they yer'9oon bil 2mr
ilwa8e3)..
But it is also very dissapionting when u see that NO ONE is listening to them or even trying to listen to them !!
i remember them when they came to SQU campus , n they were so confident that some1 will at least take an action to help them .. but no one did !! n u could see the disapintment in their eyes at that moment !
I hope that they'll get what they r asking 4,
regards,,
CheM_EnG =D
Blue: the law college itself was re-systemized recently after seperating from AL-shree'aa
and there is a cohort which followed this stream but it's the 2007 cohort which is taking this action basically cuz according to the program they will be specilized by next year, so they still have some time.
anyway you may understand more you are a law person
chem_eng: yea it's so disappointing when no one listens though they are talking for the benfit of all, the country and themselves.
yea we hope that they get what they are fighting for :)
Btw .. keep updating n posting new things ..
i really started lovin ur blog =D
gd luck friendoo ^_^
Chem_Eng: it's obvious since you created a google account and i suggest you too start blogging :)
Hmmm... the Law College has actually been asking for feedback and suggestions on how they can improve their program to meet the reality of the market demands. They have spoken to all sorts of agencies in Oman and abroad, so I think that they are thinking of making changes to the system sometime soon.
yeah they made a new step by protesting.. but I think it's natural.. I mean this is how things are supposed to be like everywhere. yet I'd say it so seldom in Oman to see people protesting
I think it was lame of them to protest.. why in the world do they refuse what the market needs of laws specialization? I think it's a problem we have in SQU in many specializations.. they're tooo broad that the graduates can not find suitable jobs easily and if they do, they are enrolled by the employers in training courses and things for a long time before they'd be able to practice what they learned
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