PLANNING & STATISTICS DEPARTMENT

About Us


Planning is a basic tool for the proper development of any establishment. The Sultan Qaboos University acknowledges this and has adopted the policy of using strategic planning in all its development activities, whether they occur at the level of units or at the level of the University at large.

 

The University has established a department of Planning and Statistics (PSD) with specific functions relating to planning in the University. These detailed functions are available on this website. In general, the PSD is required to provide advise based on scientific principles of planning to decision makers, by reviewing all development proposals and making appropriate recommendations. In order to provide such advise, the PSD is now in the process of establishing a data warehouse for the University so that all planning will be based on real data which can help to prepare development proposals and monitor progress of all development projects and other activities in the University and provide progress reports for decision makers.

 

 

Vision Vision

 

Mission Mission

 

High-level planning strategies.

  The establishment of a solid base of scientific planning based on present real up-to-date data with full appreciation of the future development in all units of the University.

 

 

 

Objectives Objectives

 

Responsibilities Responsibilities

 

The main objective of the PSD is to ensure the proper preparation and execution of all University projects in full conformity with University objectives and functions by establishing a planning culture within the University and coordinating all efforts for planning amongst the various units in the university through the identification of the right mechanisms for cooperation acceptable to all.

 

 

  • Participate in preparing and reviewing University plans to ensure alignment with future needs and available resources.
  • Propose and implement up-to-date planning procedures, including estimating academic programs, personnel, finance, and services needs.
  • Monitor the execution of approved projects, provide progress reports, and suggest corrective actions when needed.
  • Follow-up on decisions, recommendations from external assessors, and outcomes of University conferences/workshops.
  • Prepare regular progress reports on ongoing projects, highlighting issues and proposing corrective measures.
  • Conducted investigations and feasibility studies to support university development projects.
  • Coordinate with University units to identify and assess potential development projects.
  • Collect, organize, and archive data on University activities, ensuring easy retrieval.
  • Provide data access for the university units by policies and regulations.
  • Regularly issue publications, statistical analyses, and performance indicators for University units.

 

The Responsibilities of the Units

Coordination and follow up
  • Coordination and follow-up section
  • Carrying out work related to correspondence such as receiving, sending, and following up.
  • Entering the training needs of the department's employees.
  • Entering and coordinating vacations for department employees
  • Organizing and coordinating appointments related to the work of the department, and participating in the preparation for the meetings of the director of the department.
  • Supervising the department's petty cash and following up on the settlement of bills in accordance with the university's financial laws and regulations.
  • Participate in the preparation of reports and bulletins issued by the department.
  • Registering and sending the department's requests to the stores on an annual basis.
Planning
  • Receiving and collecting suggestions and planning schemes brought by the university's units and studying to prepare planning schemes and programs for the university.
  • Suggesting procedures and necessary methods to modernize methodical planning in the university and suggesting necessary initiatives and standards to develop the planning process and achieve the objectives of the university. 
  • Participating in preparing long-term strategic plans and making sure that they suit the objectives, views, and university's thesis and extracting quinquennial plans schemes from strategic plans and developing them according to the new outcomings.
  • Finding and developing possible means to evaluate the needs of academic programs, human resources, finance, and establishing utilities to facilitate decision-making concerning the affixing of policies and programs that determine the priorities, and by coordinating with specialized authorities. 
  • Participating in the preparation of annual working plans on which the university budget is prepared and coordinated with specialized authorities. 
  • Cooperating with specialized authorities concerning the preparation of a balanced developmental scheme.
  • Coordinating with specialized authorities concerning working on planning, and developing the university premises which suit the future recommendations and making sure of good utilization of those premises and the percentage of working. 
  • Participating in the preparation of primary planning studies, concerning the construction of the university premises and determining the priorities according to available possibilities by coordinating with the specialized authorities.
  • Any other tasks assigned to do.
Statistics
  • Collecting data, information, and statistics connected with different aspects of activities in the university.
  • Categorizing and classifying the data of the university and putting principles of saving and taking back the data.
  • Providing the meant authorities with data and statistical information according to what is determined by instructions.
  • Deducing the statistical indicators connected with the performance of different university units to benefit from in the planning processing and the easiness of making suitable decisions.
  • Preparing and issuing bulletins, and annual statistical books for the university.
  • Any other Tasks assigned to do.
Studies and Researches
  • Studying the progress of executing the approved plans and perception on what has been executed or not executed of such plans and the factors affecting that and to be taken under consideration when working in amending these plans and when preparing new plans. 
  • Coordinating with the university units to prepare honorable studies that monitor the future needs of the society and putting suitable suggestions to suit those needs along with the university outcomings and academic programs.
  • Carrying out studies and research that detect the performance of the university's academic, researching, administrative, and servicing units to evaluate the plans execution process and approved programs.
  • Carrying out studies, and research connected with the academic process and administration which participate in putting strategic view or modernizing systems, and policies or developing the services level, through cooperation with different university units.
  • Designing questionnaires used in studies and research and guaranteeing the methods of taking samples with accurate statistical methodology with the help of an electronic system to design and distribute questionnaires.
  • Pursuing the execution of studies and research, according to the approved timetable for each study.
  • Studying the reports of the department sections about performing their tasks according to rules that arrange the work to guarantee the quality of performance in the department.
  • Preparing and writing bulletins, reports of studies, and research done by section.
  • Participation in preparing the annual statistical book by coordination with the section of the department.
  • Any other tasks assigned to do.
Equipment Information for Planning
  • Work in cooperation with meant authorities in the university to satisfy the data of equipment and scientific, medical, and research devices concerning the following; their numbers, types, places of availability, and functions. Authorities that benefited from the curriculums that serve. Working percentage. Assumed age (production).
  • Work in cooperation with the specialized authorities in analyzing and evaluating the situation of equipment and scientific, medical, and research devices in the university and to raise the needed recommendations on that equipment and devices.
  • Coordinating the needs of colleges, research centers, other university units, and university hospitals of specialized equipment and scientific, medical, and research devices.
  • Participation in practices and purchases committee in the university with the technical opinion from a planning point of view when purchasing equipment and scientific, medical, and research devices with a purchase price of twenty Omani Rials or more.
  • Coordinating with meant authorities in the university to make sure that the equipment and scientific devices achieve the working efficiency to complement university units, colleges, and centers and prevent financial, administrative and working squandering.
  • Any other tasks assigned to do.
Info. Systems for Planning
  • Working in cooperation with specialized authorities to build a complete electronic database for the department, taking all its data from the databases available in different university units.
  • Administrating and working the complete electronic database by coordinating with specialized authorities.
  • Preparing and designing tables and electronic forms by confirming patterns and the department's needs.
  • Technical support for the department and providing them with data and information extracted from a complete electronic database.
  • Continuous coordination with the database representatives in different university units and connected with the complete electronic database to enable the specialized authorities to modernize it's updating data.
  • Coordinating with the information systems center concerning the maintenance of devices and equipment of the complete electronic database.
  • Making sure of the matching of the future net database systems in the university with the needs of the complete electronic database.
  • Developing and modernizing the complete electronic database with what suits the future work requirements and universal technical developments.
  • Working to guarantee the accuracy and inclusion of data and information extracted from the base to support the decision and the planning process in the university.
  • Any other tasks assigned to do.

Our Services

publications

SQU Annual Report

Statistical Year Book

KPI performance indicators for the university

SQU Strategic Plan

Statistical Overview

PSD Annual Report

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