ABSTRACT
The old Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) Trade School was taken over by Government in 1971 under the Ministery of Labour & Social Affairs and is today known as the Oman Vocational Training Centre. To turn a country into a going concern from scratch would have been difficult enough in a country at peace but for Oman, already engaged in a messy and difficult war in the far south, the problems were increased a hundredfold. PDO is still the only oil-producing company in Oman, though other oil companies are now involved in exploration and drilling. Both agriculture and fisheries also have high hopes of one day becoming the main prop of the Omani economy after the oil runs down. Low on the list of priorities in Oman in 1970, but in many ways the most important, particularly in Dhofar at war came the Information Services: radio and, in 1974 television.
