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Professional Development Contest

As part of the Human Resources Department ef- average ofof 20 training hours for each employee. It is
fort to develop its staff skills and as a result of the worth mentioning that a wide range of courses were
current situation of COVID-19 that the entire world delivered to the staff, e.g. administrative, vocation-
is witnessing, which prevented the Department al and technical courses through more than 8 online
from conducting the professional development platforms, e.g. ALISON and Idrak. Arwa Al Busaidi,
courses onsite, the Department decided to resort an Employee Relations Specialist, who won the first
to other alternatives that adhere to the measures place said that she is pleased to attend 12 different
of the Supreme Committee dealing with COVID-19 courses regarding employee relations and how to
in Oman, which is to run a contest online. The con- deal with employees from different cultures. Younis
test lasted for two months (April & May). About Al Rashdi, Specialist Carrier Guidance who won sec-
17 staff from 8 departments participated in the ond place, mentioned that the contest encouraged
contest, which included more than 100 training him to learn more about the educational platforms
courses that lasted for 344 training hours, on an that will be positively reflected on his performance.

Participations

Discussing the role of archives, libraries and museums in combating the spread of the
Covid-19 epidemic. The University’s Documents and Archives Department participates in
a scientific symposium by UNESCO.
ums can help combat the spread of the novel coro-
navirus, COVID-19 pandemic“. The symposium, held
via Zoom, was arranged by Memory of the World
Program, under the UNESCO, and the Department
of Media and Information and Media Development.
The symposium discussed a number of topics, the
most important of which was the spread of unre-
liable information about Coronavirus and the need
Discussing the role of archives, libraries and muse- for accurate and reliable information on the nature
ums in combating the spread of the Covid-19 epi- of the pandemic and the spread of a new pandem-
demic. The University’s Documents and Archives ic, which is the pandemic of inaccurate information,
Department participates in a scientific symposium and the role of the information memory institutions
by UNESCO. in this pandemic. In the symposium, an interna-
Assistant professor, Dr. Aiman Ismail from the De- tional group of experts participated in the fields of
partment of Documents and Archives, College of information science, library studies, and document
Business and Management, participated in a sym- and archive management.
posium entitled ”How archives, libraries and muse-

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