March 11th 2014, Muscat- More than 50 school teachers and educators from various public schools across Muscat recently participated in a workshop to enable them to engage on Islamic finance. The two day programme was hosted by Oman's first Islamic bank, Bank Nizwa, and was designed in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. Its principle objective was to equip participants with knowledge of Islamic Banking principles and Shari'a compliant financing modes which may be integrated into the education system at school level.
Speaking about the workshops, Dr. Jamil El Jaroudi, Bank Nizwa , CEO said, "Islamic finance has a very vital role to play in the development of our young people and we are proud to be the bank that is working to equip our teachers with the tools to shape our future, the youth of Oman."
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