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[00:00:00] And we were facing real challenges, the reality that
[00:00:03] the country is experiencing
[00:00:06] institutions, this in general, and the reality that Marib governorate is experiencing
[00:00:08] in particular, and the reality that
[00:00:12] service. We take from the student the community that lives or resides in Marib governorate is experiencing. The war
[00:00:15] means, I mean, from
[00:00:18] I mean, 4500 riyals 2016, I mean, when the university opened and Houthi
[00:00:22] shells were falling on people's heads and on people's homes and on
[00:00:25] people's gatherings. I mean,
[00:00:28] we initially had a computer science department, and this is one of
[00:00:32] the departments that opened in the Faculty of Education, Arts, and Sciences in
[00:00:36] we suffer from in 2006. We built on it in
[00:00:38] 2017, meaning
[00:00:41] the standards of quality and academic accreditation in we built on this department and opened a new department that we named Information Systems, and we opened the Faculty of
[00:00:45] Information Technology and Computer
[00:00:46] and to preserving Science. And we went through,
[00:00:49] we proceeded with this situation with two departments
[00:00:51] Doctor, so university qualification is not in the faculty, with two departments, approximately until 20, and because of our belief
[00:00:54] that we, as a university, must follow
[00:00:57] the new, especially in the specializations that
[00:01:00] have demand in the labor
[00:01:03] market, we added
[00:01:06] IT to computer science, then we added in
[00:01:11] 2023 cybersecurity, and this year, as I mentioned before,
[00:01:14] consider, we added artificial intelligence. We hope that the Faculty of Information
[00:01:18] Technology and Computer Science, God willing, in the technical
[00:01:21] aspect, will meet
[00:01:24] and follow the new specializations, God willing, and strive to
[00:01:28] open them as much as possible, and also strive to
[00:01:31] improve the quality of the
[00:01:33] housing, this amount educational and training material for the student,
[00:01:36] so that the student graduates armed with professional and
[00:01:40] less
[00:01:40] Yemen Channel, we say this. knowledge aspects to the labor market. We are keen
[00:01:43] on this matter. In the technical aspect, we feel
[00:01:46] that we
[00:01:49] to register for competed, we don't say we competed, but we strived to provide
[00:01:53] is mentioned in the program specialized
[00:01:57] in the course document. This to be competitive. This situation, of course, is not scientific services that the labor market needs, and at the forefront of them is artificial
[00:02:00] intelligence. Today, it has become a cry among all people, artificial
[00:02:03] intelligence, and also cybersecurity,
[00:02:05] a part of the cognitive aspect and a part of in addition to the specializations that This course is purely applied. were available from an early time,
[00:02:09] which are computer science, IT, and information
[00:02:12] systems that were provided by
[00:02:15] universities that increased the colleges previously. We have a strategic plan.
[00:02:18] We proceeded from 21 to 25 with a strategic plan that we named
[00:02:22] the First Strategic Plan, and in it, we outlined the features of
[00:02:26] and equip them in a way that the university, how it will be at the end of the first five years of
[00:02:28] the university, and these are the features that we are in today,
[00:02:33] meaning these 10,000, and we are satisfied, satisfied with them, despite the circumstances and despite the obstacles
[00:02:36] that we faced, and at the forefront of these obstacles is that
[00:02:39] the general situation of the country,
[00:02:41] their laboratories at the state, I mean, we appreciate this and people appreciate this,
[00:02:44] and students appreciate this matter, I mean, that,
[00:02:48] I mean, the construction aspect, Chapter
[00:02:51] Four, I always say that Chapter Four, during ten
[00:02:54] years, the state did not allocate to the regional university, whether
[00:02:58] it was two billion, less than two billion, approximately 50
[00:03:01] million, I remember the number. The first
[00:03:05] allocation was 222,000. The second allocation was 750,
[00:03:10] to pay attention to this 50, sorry, 222 million. The second allocation was 750 million. The third allocation was
[00:03:13] a billion minus a million, meaning almost all of it
[00:03:19] presidency, starting from needs, that have died out in the Kidney Hospital and everyone who cooperates with us in this two scientific comes to one billion and 970, 72
[00:03:21] in the applied aspect, go to million Yemeni riyals. This is over ten years. The Faculty of Administrative Sciences, its students, In fact, the local authority did not fall short with us in infrastructure,
[00:03:25] located in and it intervened with us a lot
[00:03:29] is considered one of the sovereign faculties in in terms of organizations. Unfortunately, the international organizations that
[00:03:32] care about education did not
[00:03:36] 2024, approximately. Yes, these approach the university, despite our follow-up with them, and our presentation of their projects and our desire for
[00:03:40] them to be a partner with us. Only
[00:03:42] the Saudi Program for the Reconstruction of Yemen interacted with us,
[00:03:47] in, I mean, in which built us 16 student dorms there,
[00:03:49] and the building of the vice-presidencies, the academic vice-presidency, the three
[00:03:53] vice-presidencies: academic, postgraduate
[00:03:55] our children in
[00:03:56] of society for studies, and student affairs. The World Assembly participated with us in building
[00:03:58] the mosque. I say participated, not that it built the mosque alone, but rather it partnered
[00:04:02] it, I mean, in with the university. The Research and Translation Center
[00:04:09] and also the salaries of the teaching staff in 2031, are focusing on this and the Student Care Association built with us the health unit there, and the Human
[00:04:13] We also return to the main center in Roots Association participated with us in the Faculty of Information Technology
[00:04:16] and Computer Science there. And today, we, in partnership with the local
[00:04:20] and according to the approved authority, handed over, approximately
[00:04:23] a month ago, the site of the Faculty of
[00:04:26] from Administrative and Financial Sciences, and
[00:04:29] the contractor
[00:04:31] 244, and everyone knows this. is working with the Human Roots Association. This association is the one
[00:04:34] that participated with us in building the infrastructure
[00:04:37] of the university that we are currently working with. In any case,
[00:04:41] we are keen to open
[00:04:44] degree holders. This authority scientific specializations that society needs.
[00:04:47] We can say that this We have physics, we have mathematics, we have geology, we have chemistry, we have
[00:04:52] covers no I mean, biology, life work, we have
[00:04:54] computer specializations that I mentioned, we have medicine,
[00:04:58] with the new or second strategic plan,
[00:05:02] we also have a group of faculties that we hope
[00:05:04] to open by the end of 31, 27,
[00:05:08] 31, and a group of centers, approximately three centers.
[00:05:11] A group of specializations
[00:05:14] that belong to the existing faculties. For example, the Faculty of
[00:05:18] Medicine, we can expand in it. The Faculty of Computer Science, we can expand in it.
[00:05:21] The Faculty of Administrative Sciences, we can also expand
[00:05:24] in it, in addition to the existing programs in it currently.
[00:05:28] Yes, Doctor, scientific research represents one of the criteria
[00:05:32] for development for academic institutions. What is the reality of scientific
[00:05:35] research in the university, and what support do
[00:05:39] and researchers
[00:05:42] This is indeed one of the fundamental problems that
[00:05:48] the university and all Yemeni universities.
[00:05:51] But the professor
[00:05:53] strives. Let me here
[00:05:57] take this opportunity to talk about this issue specifically.
[00:06:01] The professor used to receive
[00:06:04] 219 Yemeni riyals until
[00:06:08] before until the date, until the year 20.
[00:06:13] Of course, 219 was equal to 1000 dollars, a thousand and a little over,
[00:06:16] 1,100 dollars,
[00:06:18] approximately.
[00:06:21] The professor's salary is still the same. Dr. Maeen
[00:06:25] Abdulmalik, thankfully, added approximately 30,000
[00:06:28] Yemeni riyals to the professor, so the professor receives,
[00:06:32] as they say, for pennies,
[00:06:34] 244
[00:06:36] Yemeni riyals monthly. Today, 244 is not
[00:06:40] 200 dollars.
[00:06:42] If he goes to the market and looks for
[00:06:46] the university professor in general, and
[00:06:50] I say, through our channel,
[00:06:53] We know the state's situation, but we must
[00:06:57] pay attention to this issue. The professor receives
[00:07:00] 244 thousand riyals, and we want the professor to be
[00:07:04] باحثا وان يكون مدرسا وان
[00:07:08] sustainable, and therefore we say and hope
[00:07:11] that the state, with its current circumstances, pays attention
[00:07:15] to the professor. This has affected the professor's performance.
[00:07:18] It will certainly affect the professor's performance in the classroom and in the lab and in research. Despite
[00:07:22] that, we at the university strive
[00:07:26] in the issue of scientific research and encouraging
[00:07:29] professors with moral encouragement. As for financially, we cannot actually
[00:07:33] provide, we cannot provide the professor with
[00:07:36] a financial
[00:07:39] to publish his research. Nevertheless, some
[00:07:43] and
[00:07:46] research here and there and publish their research. We started this
[00:07:49] matter in the university with two axes. The first
[00:07:52] axis is the establishment of a refereed scientific journal
[00:07:56] in the university, which was established in the university in 2018. Today,
[00:08:00] the journal is in approximately its ninth volume,
[00:08:04] and each volume publishes two issues. So we are now in approximately
[00:08:07] 18, 18 issues of the journal. This is a refereed
[00:08:11] scientific journal that deals with scientific research, and professors, our professors in the university,
[00:08:15] and others from universities who communicate with us publish in it, researchers
[00:08:18] at a national level and at an international
[00:08:22] level. The second axis that we pursued in the university
[00:08:24] is holding scientific seminars and conferences. We held
[00:08:30] during these ten
[00:08:33] years, and they were scientific conferences that we can
[00:08:36] describe as respectable scientific conferences. The first scientific
[00:08:39] conference was in 2022, and the first conference
[00:08:43] was in the year 2025 or
[00:08:46] 2024, in May
[00:08:49] two conferences, we encourage morally, as
[00:08:52] I said, I mean,
[00:08:55] the university's academic staff to publish
[00:09:00] the sites, the international scientific research sites, in Scopus,
[00:09:03] and Q1 and Q2. These international journals, even
[00:09:07] though the cost of publication
[00:09:10] in them is very high. And we, within the strategic plan
[00:09:14] for the year 2027,
[00:09:18] matter to a greater extent. But we say
[00:09:22] and cry out and hope that the state hears us
[00:09:25] with this cry that the situation of the university professor
[00:09:29] is a, I mean, miserable situation, if I may
[00:09:32] say so.
[00:09:34] The financial amount
[00:09:39] the university as a monthly salary is
[00:09:44] I mean, I am not saying anything secret. All universities, all our colleagues in the entire
[00:09:48] Republic of Yemen receive
[00:09:51] 244. This amount does not even cover the rent
[00:09:55] of accommodation, let alone the rest of the professor's needs, let alone
[00:09:58] that the amount provides the professor with, I mean,
[00:10:01] the atmosphere and the capabilities that
[00:10:05] help him to, I mean,
[00:10:08] stability and psychological calm and following up on new developments in
[00:10:11] his specialization and submitting scientific research, let alone publishing
[00:10:15] النشر
[00:10:17] in international journals that raise the university's
[00:10:21] level in scientific research. Yes, so
[00:10:24] Dr. Mohammed Mohammed, we will now go to
[00:10:28] Stay with us, dear viewers, to complete the rest of the discussion about
[00:10:31] Saba Region University and the challenges it is facing
[00:10:35] despite the current war
[00:10:37] conditions.
[00:10:45] Welcome back, dear viewers, and I reiterate my welcome to
[00:10:49] Dr. Mohammed. Dr. Mohammed, we now come
[00:10:53] to the most important issue related to the future of students after
[00:10:56] graduation. To what extent
[00:11:00] and neighboring
[00:11:03] governorates?
[00:11:06] Of course, before this, I would like to correct that
[00:11:09] we have three scientific centers: the Academic Development and Quality
[00:11:12] Assurance Center, the Languages and Translation Center, and the Research
[00:11:16] and Community Service Center. To clarify further,
[00:11:20] the Research and Community Service Center has two tracks: the training
[00:11:24] courses track and the community research
[00:11:26] track. We have indeed started on this track, the community research
[00:11:30] track. We have
[00:11:32] almost
[00:11:36] completed 35
[00:11:38] research papers. The difference between the research
[00:11:41] produced by the Research and Community Service Center
[00:11:44] and the scientific research published in refereed scientific
[00:11:48] journals is that those are refereed scientific
[00:11:52] research papers published in refereed scientific journals.
[00:11:55] While the research conducted by
[00:11:58] the Research Center is, I mean,
[00:12:05] stringent than refereed scientific research.
[00:12:08] We return to the topic of your question, which is
[00:12:12] the issue
[00:12:14] of the university's alignment with the needs of the labor market in scientific
[00:12:18] In fact, I will talk
[00:12:21] about this issue from two angles. The first
[00:12:25] angle is that we in the university have been keen on this matter from the beginning
[00:12:29] of establishing the university. We
[00:12:32] built on the existing specializations. The existing
[00:12:35] specializations that were in the Faculty of Education, Arts, and Sciences were
[00:12:39] 15 specializations when the faculty started, but when we came,
[00:12:42] these specializations had shrunk that were open to students
[00:12:46] to seven specializations. We built on these seven specializations, then
[00:12:50] we were looking for specializations that society needed,
[00:12:53] and therefore, administrative sciences
[00:12:56] specializations: accounting,
[00:12:59] marketing, financial sciences, banking, public administration,
[00:13:03] business administration. These are some of the specializations that society
[00:13:07] needs. So we established
[00:13:09] the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences with two
[00:13:13] specializations. We started with administration and accounting, then
[00:13:16] came marketing specialization, and then financial
[00:13:19] and banking sciences, then public administration.
[00:13:23] We established Al-Jawf College. It is the only
[00:13:26] college from 1962, the year of the
[00:13:30] September 26th Revolution, until 2017,
[00:13:33] higher education did not enter Al-Jawf governorate.
[00:13:37] And Saba Region University had, we can say,
[00:13:40] the precedence and the initiative in establishing a college.
[00:13:43] And we established the college, and when we established the college, we sat with the local authority
[00:13:47] and we sat with components of the local authority asking
[00:13:51] what are the needs of the governorate and what are the specializations that the university
[00:13:55] needs.
[00:13:58] And we sat in workshops and agreed
[00:14:02] on a group of specializations, and we gave a broad name
[00:14:04] to the college to accommodate more than one specialization. We named it the Faculty
[00:14:08] of Education, Humanities, and Applied Sciences, so that
[00:14:11] we can give it, it is a broad name, in fact, but even
[00:14:15] to give an opportunity to students,
[00:14:19] and the need, and the need, and the need
[00:14:21] specializations, we opened mathematics in it, we opened
[00:14:26] life sciences in it, we opened English in it, we opened
[00:14:29] public administration, computer science, we opened specializations
[00:14:32] that the local environmental authority there needed.
[00:14:38] the university. When we opened Information Technology and Computer
[00:14:41] Science, we turned it into a faculty. We also considered
[00:14:44] the needs of the labor market. The Faculty of
[00:14:47] Medicine was under study for almost two years,
[00:14:50] and our colleagues
[00:14:53] working in the field, in hospitals, participated
[00:14:57] with us, I don't want to mention names, but they participated with us in a workshop, and we held
[00:15:01] a workshop in 2019, and His Excellency the General and His Excellency the Team Leader and His Excellency
[00:15:04] the Deputy attended this workshop with us, and components of the local
[00:15:09] and society attended
[00:15:12] with us in developing
[00:15:16] program documents. We are keen
[00:15:19] that we hold
[00:15:21] community workshops for every specialization. For every specialization
[00:15:25] and we are preparing its document, a community workshop must be held, and in the community
[00:15:29] workshop, we target or it is attended by professors
[00:15:32] of the department, students who are currently studying in the department,
[00:15:36] and graduate students. The local authority,
[00:15:40] private
[00:15:43] graduate can work in them, for example, banks
[00:15:47] or exchange houses or large
[00:15:50] commercial stores, Sharia and Law,
[00:15:53] judicial
[00:15:55] enforcement officers in general,
[00:15:58] the Public Prosecution,
[00:16:00] the court, law students, I mean, we are keen
[00:16:03] to hold community events for every
[00:16:07] program. I mean, we prepared its document, and all
[00:16:11] the programs we have at the university, thank God, and this is what we are proud of,
[00:16:14] we prepared their documents according to
[00:16:18] the Republic of Yemen. We conducted these workshops, so we are
[00:16:22] very keen to offer
[00:16:25] programs. These programs,
[00:16:28] after the student graduates, they will be armed with scientific
[00:16:32] and practical skills and scientific
[00:16:36] knowledge. They will find a place in the
[00:16:39] labor market to work. And when I go to the hospital or
[00:16:43] I go to the market or something, I find our sons and students who are graduates
[00:16:48] is something we greatly
[00:16:52] while acknowledging that in some specializations, we actually open
[00:16:55] them, we open them
[00:16:57] for those who wish to study. And we
[00:17:01] believe that some specializations can be reconsidered, and this is a very natural matter. But
[00:17:05] nevertheless, they are available to people,
[00:17:09] even those who desire it. We may have many of our daughters
[00:17:12] who wish to learn, and she
[00:17:16] is, I mean, a housewife with her husband and with her children, and she
[00:17:20] does not study because she wants to go out to the labor market, but she studies for the sake
[00:17:23] of learning. She comes to the university to learn for the sake
[00:17:27] of knowledge and acquiring knowledge. So we are keen. This is the
[00:17:31] first angle, as I told you. I will talk about another topic. We,
[00:17:34] the universities, it is true that we consider. And this is an important
[00:17:38] issue. I, in my personal conviction, many of my
[00:17:41] colleagues, professors, and university
[00:17:45] may disagree with me, but this is my personal conviction. I say that universities should
[00:17:49] be the institutions that
[00:17:52] are concerned with qualification,
[00:17:55] training, and graduating people. And
[00:17:59] it is not a condition that this issue
[00:18:02] be linked to the labor
[00:18:06] market needing the specialization or not needing it. But
[00:18:10] in general, all the specializations offered by
[00:18:14] the university, society in general needs them. The state
[00:18:17] in general, the environment in general needs them. Today, this
[00:18:21] is a real problem. We need to, starting from the government,
[00:18:25] passing through the Ministry of Higher Education, and they are making efforts, in fact, from the head of state,
[00:18:29] the government, the Ministry of Higher Education, everyone is making efforts in these
[00:18:32] circumstances. These circumstances are not only on universities, they are on everyone,
[00:18:36] from the leading institutions to the specialist and to the common
[00:18:39] citizen. The citizen, I mean, in his environment
[00:18:43] or in his place or in his home or in, I mean, I say we need
[00:18:47] matter. Today, there are specializations,
[00:18:50] among the most important specializations that society in general
[00:18:55] public universities. I mean, I also say that we must
[00:18:59] look at these issues. The Faculty of Education today needs a look
[00:19:03] and a deep look. The Faculty of Education
[00:19:06] the state, and there was a decision by Prime Minister Abdul Qader
[00:19:10] Bajamal, may God have mercy on him, in 2006, in which he then
[00:19:13] prohibited private universities from opening faculties of education because
[00:19:16] it was available to all universities, and this was, I mean, we say it, I mean,
[00:19:20] a certificate, I mean, and we also heard that it was
[00:19:23] an excellent national decision for the Faculty of Education
[00:19:27] to be exclusive to the state because it is concerned with graduating students, graduating professors
[00:19:31] who teach our children, who teach schools.
[00:19:35] The Faculty of Education today is, I mean, in danger, and we need to reconsider
[00:19:40] the staff and in, I mean, I mean,
[00:19:43] the salaries of doctors and so on,
[00:19:47] schools. I mean, when a student graduates from the Faculty of Education
[00:19:50] and studied for four years, he goes to the field with
[00:19:53] 35,000 riyals. If he drinks tea with it for a month, it is not enough.
[00:19:57] 53,000 riyals. So we need a deep look.
[00:20:00] All specializations of arts, psychology,
[00:20:03] philosophy, sociology, these are some
[00:20:08] of the sciences that people look at like this at first because society does not need them.
[00:20:12] And therefore, they have no market. So
[00:20:15] they must be closed. And this is a view, unfortunately, I see it as a short-sighted
[00:20:19] view. The university must open all scientific
[00:20:22] specializations because we are the scientific institutions that
[00:20:25] are concerned with these specializations and preserving
[00:20:28] and enriching the scientific
[00:20:31] library with them, and future generations need them.
[00:20:35] So we say, we and all universities are keen to
[00:20:39] provide, provide, provide, I mean,
[00:20:42] but also we are not
[00:20:46] merchants. The university
[00:20:49] is not merchants. I mean, what works in the market
[00:20:52] we don't close. No, we say that we foster
[00:20:55] knowledge and scholars, and we preserve knowledge and expand
[00:20:59] with knowledge, and we have to
[00:21:02] open all specializations that have
[00:21:06] a direct relationship with community
[00:21:08] service, but they certainly have
[00:21:12] an indirect relationship in community service. Yes, Doctor,
[00:21:15] so I thank you for giving me this opportunity regarding this issue because I hear a lot
[00:21:18] about this,
[00:21:26] but in its depths, it may
[00:21:29] carry something that poses a threat
[00:21:33] to science
[00:21:36] science and enriching the scientific library in general. Yes, indeed,
[00:21:41] complete only with theoretical
[00:21:44] courses alone. What are the opportunities for training and practical application
[00:21:47] that the university provides to its students
[00:21:50] upon graduation? I mentioned before that
[00:21:53] we prepare the program document.
[00:21:57] And we have prepared all program documents that we have, and I
[00:22:01] also mentioned that we prepare the course documents.
[00:22:05] The program document contains the student's study plan. It
[00:22:08] talks about the department's outcomes,
[00:22:12] meaning what the student should be like when he graduates from
[00:22:16] this specialization, and these are known outcomes,
[00:22:21] centered in four directions: cognitive, skill-based,
[00:22:24] general,
[00:22:26] and mental.
[00:22:29] This scientific plan describes
[00:22:32] what are the cognitive aspects
[00:22:35] that the student must be equipped with, and what are
[00:22:39] must be equipped with. So it
[00:22:43] document, and it is also mentioned
[00:22:47] course has no research.
[00:22:52] This course has
[00:22:55] aspect. As
[00:22:58] for the applied aspect, in fact,
[00:23:01] we have laboratories
[00:23:05] for the courses that have both parts,
[00:23:07] the applied and cognitive aspects, or the purely applied aspect.
[00:23:11] We have laboratories at the university, and we strove to establish
[00:23:16] does not disrupt the educational process or according to the available capabilities of
[00:23:20] the faculty, in the applied
[00:23:23] programs for physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology,
[00:23:26] and geology, we have their laboratories. And archeology also, we have
[00:23:31] the university. We have computer science also, we have its laboratories at the university. We have
[00:23:35] medicine, we also have its laboratories at the university, approximately four laboratories,
[00:23:39] in addition to having internal partnerships
[00:23:42] in the university with Marib Hospital Authority and
[00:23:45] Kira Hospital and some private hospitals, such as
[00:23:48] King Salman Eye Center, for example.
[00:23:52] This is the clinical aspect
[00:23:55] for medical students. Medical
[00:23:59] students train in them. And through this program,
[00:24:02] I thank the Hospital Authority and I thank
[00:24:05] regard.
[00:24:11] exchange offices and commercial banks
[00:24:15] Marib governorate. And thank them also because they deal
[00:24:19] with us. They welcome our students. The Faculty of Sharia and Law,
[00:24:22] our students go to state institutions located
[00:24:25] and concerned with I mean,
[00:24:28] investigations, the Public Prosecution, the court. And in
[00:24:31] our design of these faculties, we also prepare,
[00:24:34] I mean,
[00:24:38] mock courts, God willing. The Faculty of Sharia is one of the faculties
[00:24:41] whose building we will construct soon, God willing.
[00:24:45] And we will be keen to establish internal courts to train students.
[00:24:48] The demand for it. I mean,
[00:24:52] the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences also has
[00:24:55] a laboratory for electronic accounting, and it has
[00:24:58] a system or application installed on programs that students
[00:25:02] train on. In general, we are keen that the student
[00:25:05] receives sufficient knowledge, according to the courses
[00:25:10] hours, receives the entire theoretical aspect and receives the entire
[00:25:14] practical aspect, and according to
[00:25:17] the available circumstances and capabilities. Yes, Doctor. In light
[00:25:20] of the difficult economic conditions that the country is going through, the suffering
[00:25:23] of some students in completing their studies emerges. How does
[00:25:27] the university support students, especially outstanding students and those with limited
[00:25:30] income, and what are the available facilities?
[00:25:32] This is a
[00:25:35] good question. This question can be directed
[00:25:38] to private universities, why? Because private universities are already
[00:25:42] supported. They provide education
[00:25:45] for a fee. They take
[00:25:49] the cost of education. But we, in public universities in general,
[00:25:52] not Saba Region University, universities
[00:25:56] in general in the Republic, education is considered
[00:25:58] free. Yes, and this is what we say, for example,
[00:26:03] to people and so on, and the constitution of the Republic
[00:26:05] of Yemen says that education is free for all Yemeni
[00:26:09] people without exception. So we provide education as a free
[00:26:15] per year, per year, 4500 Yemeni riyals.
[00:26:20] is nothing, and the state, thankfully, provides the salaries
[00:26:24] of doctors and operating expenses as much as possible for universities
[00:26:28] and institutions.
[00:26:30] Due to the lack of allocated operating expenses
[00:26:34] for faculties in public universities, a door was
[00:26:37] opened for parallel education and private
[00:26:40] funding. And universities, in this regard,
[00:26:44] I mean, they take, and the law has already
[00:26:48] regulated this issue. You take
[00:26:50] a certain number, and you have a percentage of
[00:26:54] 5%, 10% of the total percentage, 20% of the total percentage
[00:26:58] accepted in public funding, which is free. You can
[00:27:01] accept private funding in it, which helps
[00:27:04] in operating expenses for the university. And we, at the university,
[00:27:08] were keen from the beginning when the university was established in
[00:27:11] 2016 until 2020,
[00:27:15] we did not enter this door at all, private funding.
[00:27:18] And also, there is something new, open education
[00:27:22] and e-learning. We did not enter it. In 2020, we started
[00:27:25] thinking about this matter so that,
[00:27:28] I mean, it would provide the university with some
[00:27:33] After we accept the general expenditure and complete
[00:27:37] all the requests
[00:27:40] of the applicants according to the conditions and the absorptive capacity
[00:27:43] at the department level is completed, we open the door for private expenditure
[00:27:47] for private expenditure for those who want
[00:27:51] private expenditure and have the capabilities. Nevertheless,
[00:27:55] we take into account many issues. Someone comes and tells us he is wounded, he tells us
[00:27:58] he is displaced and has such and such, and we make reductions and exemptions
[00:28:02] to a certain extent. So, in summary, the university
[00:28:05] and the Yemeni public university in general provide
[00:28:09] education services for free. There
[00:28:12] were some exaggerations
[00:28:15] from some
[00:28:18] fees. A decision was issued by Prime Minister Salem bin
[00:28:21] Brik in 2005 that set
[00:28:24] the fees, and all universities committed to the fees. At the level of coordination
[00:28:28] fees, we used to take 12,000 from female students and 10,000 from male students
[00:28:31] for coordination. The coordination,
[00:28:35] are not even enough for the competitive exams, but we used to rely on them. Then the Prime
[00:28:39] Minister said, "No, 6,000." We all committed to the 6,000. We say
[00:28:43] that in the university, we committed to the Prime Minister's decision
[00:28:46] completely regarding student fees. So, the University
[00:28:50] of Saba Region actually provides
[00:28:53] education services for free,
[00:28:56] we consider this a duty that we perform, not a favor or
[00:29:00] a gift, and it is a constitutional duty. We must provide education in this
[00:29:04] way. Yes. Excellent, Dr.
[00:29:07] Mohammed. So, does the university face a shortage of faculty
[00:29:10] members or specialized competencies, and how do you work to address
[00:29:14] that?
[00:29:16] Uh, thank you very much to the state
[00:29:22] the late President Abd Rabbo,
[00:29:24] and ending
[00:29:28] with the Presidential Leadership Council, headed by Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi.
[00:29:32] Thank you very much also to the Prime Ministers, from
[00:29:35] Ahmed Abd from Daghr, Dr. Ahmed Daghr, and ending with brother
[00:29:39] Shallal, Dr. Jalal Shahem. These successive
[00:29:42] governments have truly
[00:29:45] made great efforts. We are talking about
[00:29:48] Saba University, and a special and great thank
[00:29:52] you to brother Deputy Team Sultan bin
[00:29:55] Ali Al-Arada, the first supporter, whom we at Saba Region University
[00:29:59] consider a pioneer of higher education in the Republic
[00:30:02] of Yemen for higher education in Marib
[00:30:05] Governorate.
[00:30:08] Three budgets were approved for Saba Region University: a budget in
[00:30:11] 2017, a budget in 2020, and a budget in
[00:30:14] 2024. These budgets approved
[00:30:17] job grades for the academic
[00:30:20] staff, and thank God, today the number of academic
[00:30:23] staff at Saba Region University, academic faculty
[00:30:27] and their assistants, is 361 faculty
[00:30:30] members and their assistants. Of these
[00:30:33] 361, 222 are PhD
[00:30:36] holders, and approximately 133
[00:30:40] or 23 are Bachelor's degree holders, and approximately 30
[00:30:43] are Master's
[00:30:46] staff is currently working at the university.
[00:30:50] staff that was appointed at the university
[00:30:55] less than 55%.