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Management education and training comes to Oman

S.E. Bird

Education + Training

ISSN: 0040-0912

Article publication date: 1 January 1975

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Abstract

The Sultanate of Oman lies at the southern end of the Arabian peninsular, bounded in the south by the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman, in the west by the Peoples Democratic Republic of the Yemen, in the north‐east by the United Arab Emirates, and in the north and north‐west by the wastes of the Ras al Kali or Empty Quarter: a harsh and terrible sand sea many thousands of square miles in area. There is a narrow fertile plain up to five miles deep which skirts the southern seaboard of the country and provides almost the only naturally fertile areas. Oman is about three times the size of Britain and has a population which has been estimated to be between 450,000 and 1,000,000. Certainly nobody knows how many people inhabit the country as there has never been a census, and the nomadic population drifts in and out of Oman with no regard for frontiers. Indeed the northern frontier has never been accurately defined; and where it crosses the Ras al Kali and the mountains, adjacent to Saudi Arabia, most modern maps diplomatically avoid indicating a frontier.

Citation

Bird, S.E. (1975), "Management education and training comes to Oman", Education + Training, Vol. 17 No. 1/2, pp. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001851

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MCB UP Ltd

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