Tuesday 10 / June / 2025
Muscat: More than 4,600 students from Indian schools obtained transfer certificates between April 2020 and January 15, 2021, with the highest number of cases being reported from Indian School Muscat, where 878 students opted for transfer certificates.
Besides Indian School Muscat, a big drop in student numbers was reported from Indian School Wadi Kabir (692) followed by Indian School Sohar (511) and Indian School Muladha (329).
Indian School Ghubra, Indian School Darsait and Indian School Seeb all reported more than 250 students leaving their institutions during this term.
According to data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information, the number of total expat workers fell from 1,712,798 at the end of December 2019 to 1,443,128 at the end of December 2020, reflecting a drop of 269,670.
“More than 250,000 people have left the country in the last few months so it was obvious it would impact attendance numbers in school as well,” said an educator.
