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00:00:12are currently receiving,
00:00:33in
00:00:36and five programs in
00:00:46his home and the children in male and female, distributed across
00:00:57degree from
00:01:01institutions have affected
00:01:12challenge this
00:01:26process in general at the Assurance of Education at
00:01:53to the public, but in
00:01:5433 specializations in
00:02:15Its headquarters are in the capital,
00:02:20more than one axis, on
00:02:22the ground axis, started in the college,
00:02:35so that this
00:02:38male and female students, and I still remember
00:02:57that were in of the university,
00:03:01on all fronts. In Marib, in many girls who have dropped out of
00:03:18in this that was never
00:03:31included a number of
00:03:49This is the first time I deal with this
00:04:09movement in
00:04:25initially had
00:04:27we are receiving
00:04:36labs and a college specialized in specialized computer
00:04:43the building, in the new area, in provide services for the computer college in
00:04:54programs in the
00:04:55the new, especially in
00:05:02doctoral students and 504 master's
00:05:11Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu
00:05:15Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. May Allah
00:05:18strengthen you. May Allah make you steadfast. May Allah grant you victory. In the name of Allah, in the name of Allah,
00:05:22in the name of Allah.
00:06:08The declaration of His Excellency the President of the Presidential Leadership Council for the battle of Yemen's dawn. There is a great
00:06:11attrition of the Houthi militias and of the military capabilities of the Houthi militias. This comes from
00:06:15several axes. Firstly, the aerial targeting of missile capabilities
00:06:18and also of the sites from which missiles are launched. There are
00:06:21new updates. For example, the platforms that launch missiles from
00:06:24are suddenly surprised by aerial bombardment.
00:06:28Also, the military convoys that the Houthi militia advances with
00:06:31and the attrition on several fronts. But
00:06:34Taiz comes first. It has greatly depleted
00:06:37the Houthis, and from it will be the desired dawn and salvation, God willing.
00:06:41Operation Dawn was
00:06:44the hope. It was the hope of the dawn that
00:06:47will break and dispel the darkness.
00:06:50The decisions came, and the announcement of the operation came at the time
00:06:53the citizen needed it and what he needed to hear at that specific
00:06:57moment. And work began
00:07:00that may not be clearly visible
00:07:05reality, it has its effect, which is the complete attrition of the Houthis,
00:07:09also consists of
00:07:13the terrorist militias
00:07:15losing their
00:07:18reflected in their morale, and what
00:07:22indicates that is their publications that clearly
00:07:25show the extent to which their
00:07:28morale has reached. So, Operation Dawn of Yemen affected
00:07:35and even if it seems to the observer
00:07:38that they are making progress, the situation is not as it appears
00:07:41to be.
00:07:43The lesson is in the results, and the second axis is the axis
00:07:46of morale, and this we see clearly
00:07:50and when you see the hysteria that has reached
00:07:53those responsible for
00:07:57the destructive and unjust war on Taiz, that
00:08:00they are carrying out a hysterical bombardment of civilians, this means that
00:08:04the pain has reached its peak for them.
00:08:07Of course, just the announcement led to a lot of attrition
00:08:13Al-Jawf, in Taiz, on the coast,
00:08:16in different areas of the coast, at the level of the fronts
00:08:19that face these militias, we said
00:08:23that they were depleted in a way
00:08:27seen before. We learned from many
00:08:31and multiple sources from those areas that the Houthis, that
00:08:34the Houthi gang mobilized, as we said,
00:08:38even the guards of facilities, the guards of banks,
00:08:41the guards of private and public institutions,
00:08:44people were mobilized to their battles
00:08:48and to the siege of Taiz, especially. They mobilized people
00:08:52who had some prisoners who
00:08:55spoke and said, "This is the first time
00:08:58I use a weapon.
00:09:02weapon. They forcibly mobilized me, and like me, hundreds,
00:09:05even thousands, were mobilized to the inferno
00:09:09of death." This indicates that the Houthi movement,
00:09:13that the announcement of the Battle of Dawn of Yemen
00:09:16disrupted all calculations and unsettled
00:09:20the Houthi Yemen.
00:09:23It depleted its members. It depleted, it messed up
00:09:27its plans and exhausted and depleted
00:09:29its members. It worked to disrupt it in all
00:09:33areas and on all fronts and in all estimates that
00:09:37it was making regarding
00:09:39Operation Dawn of Yemen that took place recently, the Houthi
00:09:43aggression that happened in Taiz.
00:09:47And this aggression is considered one of the fiercest
00:09:50and most brutal aggressions that happened in Taiz
00:09:54since 2015 until this moment. A fierce and ugly
00:09:57and brazen aggression whose first and main goal is
00:10:01to enslave Taiz and also to subjugate it to the Houthi
00:10:04Iranian project, and this is what Taiz rejects completely
00:10:07and utterly. And the Dawn operation came.
00:10:10at this precise time to work on
00:10:16depleting the Houthi militias. And the Houthi militia has
00:10:20lost. And the Houthis have lost in this operation
00:10:24many of their fighters and many
00:10:27of their leaders on all fronts in
00:10:31Taiz. And this is what we hoped for from the Dawn of Yemen project, which is to deplete the Houthis
00:10:35very, very greatly and for them to lose their leaders and fighters.
00:10:38And this is what happened. I almost read in the last, in
00:10:42a news report, that they have almost lost more than 5,000 fighters
00:10:45or more than that number. And this is, of course, considered a great success for the
00:10:49Dawn of Yemen operation. Of course, the Dawn of Yemen step was a necessary
00:10:52and effective step in the current phase, especially.
00:10:56that the battles became almost dead on all
00:10:59fronts, and Taiz has been besieged since 2015 until
00:11:03now. But the Dawn of Yemen opened
00:11:07the light to Yemen in general and to the people of Taiz in
00:11:10particular, of course, in terms of depleting the Houthi aggression.
00:11:14It depleted many fighters
00:11:18and leaders, and the proof is that he is still
00:11:21mobilizing into Taiz. And unfortunately, there
00:11:25are
00:11:27shells that entered Taiz
00:11:31and entered homes, causing casualties. This is evidence of
00:11:34the depletion of energy, evidence that the Dawn
00:11:38of Hope has achieved a qualitative leap. It entered Taiz
00:11:41and entered. The moral guidance team in the moral guidance department in Taiz axis
00:11:45visited the fronts
00:11:48and we found high spirits, high morale,
00:11:50and steadfastness.
00:11:52In fact, these
00:11:55individuals today
00:11:58offer the noblest of what they have in terms of will
00:12:01and determination as they fight
00:12:05this terrorist militia group,
00:12:08the Iranian
00:12:10one. The city of Taiz is
00:12:14greater than this group, than these militias.
00:12:18It is steadfast like Mount Sabr. On this
00:12:21city, they are great in the time
00:12:24of the small and in the time of these militias. Therefore, thanks
00:12:28to this incubator, and thanks
00:12:30to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, its leadership and people. Thanks
00:12:34to everyone for what they have offered to this nation
00:12:37and their love for this nation. They sacrificed for this nation
00:12:40with their blood and the fruits of their hearts,
00:12:43with their bodies and also
00:12:45their remains. So thanks to everyone for the glory of this nation
00:12:49to a great extent. But today
00:12:53we want to activate this council to serve the education sector or to serve
00:12:56the girl's education sector,
00:13:00council can play its important role and its
00:13:03prominent role in serving girl's education. Also, today
00:13:06we focus or give great importance and priority
00:13:10to education and the education of out-of-school girls due
00:13:14to the waves of displacement that families
00:13:16are exposed to.
00:13:19The families present today inside the camps, there are
00:13:23education. Girls who have dropped out of education. We want effective
00:13:27and sustainable solutions for these
00:13:30dropouts and for these problems facing girl's education.
00:13:33The meeting was attended by the Deputy Governor,
00:13:36Sheikh Judge Abdullah
00:13:39Al-Bakri, and the Deputy Director of Education, Professor Abdulaziz
00:13:43Al-Bakri, and also the head of the National Committee for Women,
00:13:45Professor Saada Akkar,
00:13:49who supported the meeting.
00:13:53The meeting
00:13:56personalities, including government
00:13:59offices.
00:15:42Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you. Welcome, dear viewers,
00:15:46to a new episode of Saba. Universities have
00:15:50today become a fundamental pillar in building societies,
00:15:53producing competencies, and keeping pace with
00:15:56scientific and technological transformations. In
00:15:59Marib Governorate, Saba Region University
00:16:02represents one of the academic institutions on which
00:16:05great hopes are placed for qualifying youth,
00:16:09expanding higher education opportunities, and contributing to
00:16:13the development process, despite the challenges imposed by
00:16:16war conditions and limited capabilities. But
00:16:19to what extent has the university been able to achieve its goals?
00:16:23What is the reality of the quality of education and specializations?
00:16:27And have its outputs kept pace with the needs of the labor
00:16:30market? And what are its plans for a more developed
00:16:34academic future? These questions and others
00:16:37we discuss in our episode with our guest, Dr.
00:16:41Mohammed Hammoud Al-Qudsi, President of Saba
00:16:44Region University. Welcome, Doctor. Welcome,
00:16:47Professor. Welcome, Dr. Mohammed. Let's start
00:16:51with the university's journey and what it has reached today. How
00:16:55do you evaluate the journey of Saba Region University since its establishment, and what
00:16:58are the most prominent achievements during these years?
00:17:02First, thank you very much to Yemen Channel for this hosting,
00:17:06and God willing, there
00:17:10will be other hostings at different levels.
00:17:13The university, God willing, on our channel, Yemen Channel, is considered the channel
00:17:17of all Yemenis. And thank you very much to Professor
00:17:21Amira. Saba Region University
00:17:24is known to have started with a college. This college started in
00:17:282006. It was established due to political circumstances at that time, unfortunately,
00:17:32and not due to scientific circumstances
00:17:35or scientific needs or achieving scientific goals,
00:17:39but rather it was established to achieve political goals in
00:17:422006 and did not receive
00:17:46the necessary attention and care that should be given
00:17:48to any college opened in any governorate.
00:17:52It was, of course, a college affiliated with Sana'a University,
00:17:56and it continued to provide its services
00:17:59with great difficulty until
00:18:022013. In 2013, education there stopped,
00:18:05and then we resumed work
00:18:08there specifically on August 11,
00:18:122016, and we started with the Faculty
00:18:15of Education, Arts, and Sciences at that time. That was its name.
00:18:17And on November
00:18:1916, 2016,
00:18:22يعني after about three months of opening the college or
00:18:26resuming work in the college, to be precise,
00:18:29a presidential decree was issued to establish Saba Region University,
00:18:32and we started with the specializations
00:18:34the college. But at the same time,
00:18:40we opened two colleges: the College of Sharia and Law, and the College of Administrative
00:18:43and Financial Sciences. Initially, its name was the College of Administrative Sciences,
00:18:46then after about two years, we changed its name to
00:18:50the College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, and we started with two departments. But
00:18:54if we move to today, today, Saba Region University has
00:18:58seven colleges,
00:19:01and among these colleges is the College of Medicine, which, God willing,
00:19:05in two months from this interview or three
00:19:09months, we will all celebrate, God willing, the graduation
00:19:12of the first batch from the College of Medicine, Human Medicine,
00:19:15General Surgery, God willing,
00:19:19and we will have about 47 students
00:19:22graduating as the first batch
00:19:26to graduate from the College of Medicine, Saba Region University.
00:19:29The name of our college is the College of Medicine, and it is not the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, but rather
00:19:33its name is the College of Medicine,
00:19:36and the College of Information Technology and Computer
00:19:39Science. Of course, the College of Medicine has one department so far, one
00:19:43department, and the College of Information
00:19:46Technology and Computer Science has five
00:19:48specializations, among them
00:19:52cyber security.
00:19:54Our students in cyber security are currently at the third level, and we also
00:19:58have a new specialization this year, artificial
00:20:01intelligence. This is the first batch
00:20:04this year, in addition to specializations
00:20:07in education, specializations in arts, specializations in sciences, specializations in administrative
00:20:11and financial sciences,
00:20:14and Sharia and Law, as I mentioned. Approximately,
00:20:18the programs we offer now at the university for the bachelor's
00:20:21degree are 33 scientific programs, so we have
00:20:25today 17, seven colleges,
00:20:2833
00:20:31bachelor's degree, applied programs, and humanities
00:20:35and administrative programs. We also opened in
00:20:392018, we started master's programs,
00:20:42and we started with three programs. Today we have master's
00:20:45and doctoral programs open at the university, almost 30
00:20:48programs. 25 programs in master's,
00:20:52distributed among the Faculties of Arts, Education,
00:20:55Sciences, Computer Science,
00:20:58and Administration. We
00:21:02this week and last week, we are receiving
00:21:06students in the Business Administration Department for the
00:21:10Master's program. And we will soon open, God willing,
00:21:13an executive business administration program soon, God
00:21:16willing. The important thing is that we now have
00:21:20approximately 25 programs
00:21:23Master's
00:21:26Doctorate. We have approximately
00:21:2944 doctoral students,
00:21:33the five programs. We have 504 students distributed
00:21:36across specializations, Master's
00:21:40specializations. The number of those who have
00:21:43actually been awarded a Master's
00:21:47the university exceeds 120 students, male and female,
00:21:51in various specializations.
00:21:53We also have three centers at the university, which are important centers:
00:21:57the Center for Academic Development and Quality Assurance, and this
00:22:01deals with the quality of the educational process at the university and observing or
00:22:04monitoring accreditation
00:22:07indicators
00:22:09or academic accreditation standards and the extent
00:22:13of their application in the educational
00:22:16university. And we have two centers that we consider
00:22:20the other two centers to be
00:22:23a service to the community, which is the program or
00:22:26center for Languages and Translation,
00:22:29and the Center for Research and Community Service.
00:22:33This is roughly a brief overview of what
00:22:37the university has become after ten years: seven colleges, three
00:22:40centers, three scientific centers,
00:22:44Bachelor's, 30 specializations in
00:22:48Master's studies and doctoral
00:22:52studies. Excellent, Dr. Mohammed. So, with the expansion of the
00:22:55university's role, the extent of student enrollment becomes clear.
00:22:58How many students, male and female, are currently enrolled,
00:23:02and how is it
00:23:04handled in case the number
00:23:07increases? Of course, we
00:23:12and we had 17 classrooms
00:23:15and labs. And the first year of
00:23:18the university's opening in
00:23:202016-17, we received
00:23:241659
00:23:28this number because for us at the university, it's a significant number and year, meaning the
00:23:31foundational year, as they say, and an important
00:23:35number to remember because it's the
00:23:38beginning of the university. Today, after ten
00:23:40years and the graduation of five batches in the name
00:23:46the last of these batches that we all celebrated
00:23:49last year, and with the presence of the Deputy
00:23:52Team Sultan
00:23:56honored us at that ceremony, and almost everyone
00:24:00attended the ceremony, and 112 graduated
00:24:02last year,
00:24:051142 male and female
00:24:07students. In any case, we started with this number.
00:24:11We came to the college, and it had 235 students. The first year, we accepted
00:24:151659
00:24:18male and female students. Today, we are at Saba Region University. As for
00:24:22bachelor's degrees only,
00:24:24those who are currently studying
00:24:26are 19,362
00:24:30male and female students, distributed across bachelor's specializations,
00:24:3333 specializations. I said we had
00:24:3617 classrooms and labs. Today, thank God,
00:24:39we started focusing on the infrastructure, the classrooms
00:24:43and labs that can accommodate this number, because the situation is a war
00:24:47situation, and the country's situation also does not allow for construction. In Yemeni
00:24:50law, every college is considered infrastructure and must have its complete
00:24:54and independent infrastructure. We focused on classrooms
00:24:57and labs. Today, at the university, there are, besides the new college that
00:25:01we opened two months ago,
00:25:04we have 64 classrooms, we have 13
00:25:07labs. These 64 classrooms and 13 or 14
00:25:11labs accommodate the students currently present
00:25:14at the university. In six colleges, two
00:25:17months ago, we moved to the new college, which is
00:25:20the College of Information Technology and Computer Science. It has approximately seven
00:25:26computer science and 14 classrooms that approximately
00:25:33the new university campus. 1600 students. The
00:25:371600 are, of course, part of the
00:25:3919,362
00:25:42students. This is approximately the number of students present, distributed
00:25:45across different fields,
00:25:48excluding postgraduate students. 44
00:25:52students, excluding
00:25:54the courses and programs offered
00:25:57by the Language Center and the Language Center.
00:26:01And the Research and Community Service Center. Approximately last year,
00:26:0525 people benefited from the Language Center, approximately 1800
00:26:07students in various courses, and the number of hours we
00:26:11provided at the Research and Community Service Center last
00:26:15year was approximately 11,000 hours that we provided
00:26:19in general programs
00:26:22and courses as a service to the community. Yes, Dr.
00:26:26Mohammed, the success of a university is not measured by the number of its students
00:26:29and colleges alone, but
00:26:32by the quality of education it provides. How do you ensure the quality
00:26:36of the educational process in light of the circumstances the country is going through? In fact,
00:26:40the circumstances are affecting
00:26:43everyone, even the man in
00:26:48school, at all levels of people. The general
00:26:52circumstances and the war that the Houthi militias
00:26:56have waged and are still waging against the country and its resources
00:27:00and against the Yemeni people and its
00:27:03everyone. But we say at the university,
00:27:07we
00:27:09try as much as possible, and with the available capabilities, to
00:27:14situation. And from the early
00:27:18days of the university,
00:27:21we were keen to establish the Center for Academic Development and Quality
00:27:26the university in 2018, meaning approximately
00:27:30a year and a half after the university's establishment. This center is responsible
00:27:34for the quality of the entire educational
00:27:37process, starting from
00:27:40the training aspects, passing
00:27:44through the description of academic programs
00:27:48and the description of study courses
00:27:50and following up on them,
00:27:52measuring performance, measuring
00:27:56student performance, classroom quality, lab
00:28:00quality, environment, or the educational
00:28:03environment in general at the university, within national
00:28:07standards
00:28:09led
00:28:11by the Council for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance
00:28:15of Higher Education in the Republic of Yemen.
00:28:18Aden. It is true that this center was delayed.
00:28:22It was an old center from 2009, and its headquarters were in Sana'a,
00:28:25the capital, Sana'a. But with the last war,
00:28:28the entire state was moved to the interim capital, Aden,
00:28:31and among the national councils at the national level that were moved to
00:28:35Aden is the Council for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher Education. That is its name
00:28:39by law: the Council for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Higher
00:28:42Education in the Republic of Yemen. And thank
00:28:45God for the Council, and now the Council is playing an excellent and wonderful
00:28:47role, and it creates movement
00:28:50and competition among universities. And last year,
00:28:54we participated, last year and the year before last, but last year, the Council created
00:28:58competition among universities in an activity it called
00:29:01the activity. The activity they call it Quality
00:29:05Week, meaning spreading the culture of quality and the concepts
00:29:08of quality. And thank God, Saba Region University won first place
00:29:12in this activity, and we were honored in Aden. I attended the honoring
00:29:16and received the Council's shield
00:29:20activity. We are very keen to ensure that the
00:29:24educational process proceeds within the quality standards of higher education
00:29:27in Yemen. And this is what
00:29:30we guarantee with documents. Program
00:29:33documents, course documents, and the strategic plan. And we will talk about the strategic
00:29:37plan, God willing. God willing. So, with the scientific
00:29:41and technological acceleration, Dr. Mohammed, the necessity of keeping pace with modern
00:29:44specializations emerges. To what extent does the university keep pace with scientific
00:29:47developments, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence
00:29:50and technology? In fact,
00:29:52we were keen on this matter and
00:29:56focused on it from the beginning, and we faced real
00:30:00challenges. The reality that the
00:30:03country is generally experiencing, and the reality that Marib governorate is experiencing
00:30:06in particular, and the reality that
00:30:09the community that lives or resides in Marib
00:30:13governorate is experiencing. The war has been,
00:30:16since 2016, when the university opened,
00:30:19Houthi shells have been falling on people's heads, on people's
00:30:23homes, and on people's gatherings. We
00:30:27a computer department, and this is one of
00:30:31the departments that opened for Education, Arts, and Sciences in
00:30:332006. We built on it in
00:30:372017, meaning we built on this department and opened
00:30:40a new department called Information Systems, and we opened the College
00:30:43of Information Technology and Computer Science,
00:30:46and we went with it in this way with two departments,
00:30:49with a college with two departments, until approximately 2020. And because of our belief
00:30:53that we, as a university, must follow
00:30:57the specializations,