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With a long summer break awaiting school and university students, there is much anticipation of how to spend the days and nights: long hours of shared family time, socialising with friends and of...

It is admission time for colleges and students often follow a variety of websites with suggestions on how to choose the right one for their purpose. Their choice is mainly determined by location,...

This is the season for a variety of academic results – school students get their final grades before going into their new classes, university students move on to another year and some of the...

Facing a class of students, all in their early 20s, I was casually explaining a postcard in the context of a poem. Looking at their blank faces, I realised they didn’t know what a postcard looked...

Many people are making mental and physical plans with the summer holidays fast approaching. These include visiting home countries, discovering new places or even indulging oneself with a...

Geoffrey Hinton, now 75, a man commonly labelled as the “godfather of AI” recently resigned from his job at Google Inc, warning that the future with Artificial Intelligence (AI) was “scary”....

In 1953, when Queen Elizabeth was crowned Queen of Great Britain at the age of 25, the kingdom was predominantly Christian. Women were just beginning to join the workforce in large numbers, the...

As people in Oman celebrated Eid holidays by travelling through the length and breadth of the country, it is not only the awe-inspiring beauty of nature that strikes us but also the trail of plastic...

As the Eid holidays have been announced, many are dreaming of a long time off work commitments, maybe spending time with family and friends. But many are also looking forward to endless days of...

As a long day of fasting ends in the midst of family and friends during Ramadhan, there are prayers by the faithful, but also stories shared across tables. For Ramadhan is about spirituality, but it...

Its seems that there is no end to the hysteria erupting from the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools. While some have celebrated this as a grand leveller, giving access to information and...

With Earth Hour just having been observed this year, it dawns on us that its symbolic importance is not enough to create awareness of climate change and environmental degradation.In order for the...

The inauguration of ‘Oman Across Ages Museum’ in the Wilayat of Manah is yet another reminder of the historical importance of Oman’s strategic position at the centre of trade, the entreport to...

It was a great moment when Aisha al Saifi of Oman recently won the prestigious ‘Prince of Poets’ title in Abu Dhabi, more so as it was on International Women’s Day. Not only did the prize...

As the Muscat International Book Fair concluded on March 4, with wide participation across all ages, it brings back hope that the habit of reading has not yet disappeared. But much needs to be done to...

At the turn of the new millennium, there was a concerted focus on the Sciences, with increased realisations that a workforce that was equipped with technological skills was urgently needed to keep up...

It is that time of year again: Oman will host the 27th International Muscat Book Fair from February 22.With over 32 countries participating, the fair will give a once in a year opportunity to book...

It is possibly counter intuitive to think that social media can be used to teach in secondary and post-secondary classrooms.After all, don’t we spend all our time chiding children for spending time...

Famous British poet William Wordsworth defined poetry as ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity’. Nothing can be more...

2022 was a promising year for fiction, with overall book sales rising by 9 per cent, according to Publisher’s Weekly, 60 per cent of which was in fiction. A quick survey of this rise shows young...