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OGTech participated in Salalah Higher
Education Fair
 Salalah The Oman-German University of
Technology (OGTech) participated during the
past two days in a Higher Education Fair at
the Al Sa’ada Secondary School for Girls in
Salalah. The exhibition was held for the
first time at the Secondary School and
besides OGTech three other private
universities from Muscat and Salalah
participated. “About 200 pupils and their
English teachers came to meet us, to get
more information about our Pre-University
and Bachelor Programmes,” said Sousann Al
Heureithy, Marketing Executive at OGTech.
“I have not heard of OGTech before, but now
after having seen the programmes, I believe
the University has very interesting
specializations like Urban Planning and
Information Technology,” said Maryam
Mohammed Ismael, Director of Al Sa’ada
Secondary School for Girls. With 1930
students Al Sa’ada Secondary School is the
biggest Secondary School in Salalah.
Currently 470 students are in grade 12 and
soon they will have to decide what they are
going to do after their final exams.
Ismeal believes that the best job prospects
for girls are currently in the IT field.
During the past three years, Al Sa’ada
Secondary School introduced two IT
laboratories and therefore IT is becoming
more and more popular. “To pursue their
future career many pupils even take a loan,”
said Ismael. In addition more and more girls
from Salalah are leaving their homes to
study in the capital Muscat. “The times have
changed, many girls want to study after
school and many of them choose a university
in Muscat. When I studied in the 90s, there
were only eleven of us at SQU,” said Ismael.
Two of the students who would like to study
in Muscat are Ruqaya Al Mudhafar and Hajir
Al Berequi, they are in class 11 at Al
Sa’ada Secondary School. “I am one of the
best in my class and I wish to study at a
university in Muscat. I have family there
and I could live with them,” said Ruquaya
and smiled.
OGTech is the first university in the Gulf
that is linked to a German University - RWTH
Aachen University. The university is located
on the beach road in North al Ghubra,
Muscat. OGTech started its Foundation
Programme in October this year. In fall
2008, the university will offer four
Bachelor Programmes in Applied Information
Technologies, Urban Planning and
Architectural Design, Applied Geosciences
and Regional Management and Tourism. All
OGTech study programmes were designed by
German professors from RWTH Aachen
University.
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