Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Arab Open University project - Sultanate of Oman
Coinciding with the Sultanate’s celebrations of the fiftieth national day, His Royal Highness Prince / Abdulaziz bin Talal, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Open University and Prof. Dr. Muhammad Al-Zakri, President of the University, signed an agreement to construct the university building in the Sultanate, and Dr. Musa bin Abdullah Al-Kindi, the university’s director, and the company implementing the project, signed on behalf of the university. Chief Executive Sheikh / Ahmed bin Abdullah Al-Hawqani, after that, Dr. Musa Al-Kindi said: A new start in the development stages of the university begins today with the signing of an agreement to construct the new building, which was designed to be compatible with the civilization and history of the Sultanate.
Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Arab Open University project - Sultanate of Oman
Dr. Musa Al-Kindi pointed out that the new university building, which will have three floors, where the ground floor includes the admission and registration department, the student affairs department, a closed theater with all equipment and a learning resource center, in addition to a prayer room for men and another for women, the clinic and special places for student activities and a café, and the first floor includes a number A large number of classrooms, computer laboratories, academic offices, and in the second floor, many classrooms, meeting rooms, academic offices, and the university administration with all its academic and administrative departments. The building is equipped with an advanced network of information and computer systems.
Dr. Al-Kindi added that the university is moving steadily and provides high-quality programs through which we provide society with the human forces that contribute to the growth of society and will be a beacon of knowledge and support for this generous country under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, may God protect him.
It is worth noting that the area of the university building reaches twenty thousand square meters in a land area of thirty eight thousand square meters and the cost of the project reaches ten million Omani riyals, and the building will be delivered at the end of 2022, when the project implementation period will reach twenty-four months.
