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Pre-university education in Oman has three stages: primary, preparatory, and secondary. Six years of primary schooling are followed by preparatory school. Academic results of the preparatory exams determine the type of secondary education the student will receive. Education has expanded dramatically since 1970, when only three primary schools existed and few girls received any schooling. Some three-fourths of elementary-school-age and more than two-thirds of secondary-school-age children are now enrolled, and nearly half of all these are female. Education is provided free to all Omanis but is still not mandatory. About three-fourths of Oman’s adult population is literate; there has been a substantial increase in the number of literate women (although female literacy lags behind that of men). The country’s national university, Sultan Qaboos University, was opened in Muscat in 1986. Oman also has several private colleges.
Private school in Qurm, suburb of Muscat	Omani school bus	School bus in Oman