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00:00:00And we were facing real challenges, the reality that
00:00:03the country is experiencing
00:00:06institutions, this in general, and the reality that Marib governorate is experiencing
00:00:08in particular, and the reality that
00:00:12service. We take from the student the community that lives or resides in Marib governorate is experiencing. The war
00:00:15means, I mean, from
00:00:18I mean, 4500 riyals 2016, I mean, when the university opened and Houthi
00:00:22shells were falling on people's heads and on people's homes and on
00:00:25people's gatherings. I mean,
00:00:28we initially had a computer science department, and this is one of
00:00:32the departments that opened in the Faculty of Education, Arts, and Sciences in
00:00:36we suffer from in 2006. We built on it in
00:00:382017, meaning
00:00:41the 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
00:00:45Information Technology and Computer
00:00:46and to preserving Science. And we went through,
00:00:49we proceeded with this situation with two departments
00:00:51Doctor, so university qualification is not in the faculty, with two departments, approximately until 20, and because of our belief
00:00:54that we, as a university, must follow
00:00:57the new, especially in the specializations that
00:01:00have demand in the labor
00:01:03market, we added
00:01:06IT to computer science, then we added in
00:01:112023 cybersecurity, and this year, as I mentioned before,
00:01:14consider, we added artificial intelligence. We hope that the Faculty of Information
00:01:18Technology and Computer Science, God willing, in the technical
00:01:21aspect, will meet
00:01:24and follow the new specializations, God willing, and strive to
00:01:28open them as much as possible, and also strive to
00:01:31improve the quality of the
00:01:33housing, this amount educational and training material for the student,
00:01:36so that the student graduates armed with professional and
00:01:40less
00:01:40Yemen Channel, we say this. knowledge aspects to the labor market. We are keen
00:01:43on this matter. In the technical aspect, we feel
00:01:46that we
00:01:49to register for competed, we don't say we competed, but we strived to provide
00:01:53is mentioned in the program specialized
00:01:57in 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
00:02:00intelligence. Today, it has become a cry among all people, artificial
00:02:03intelligence, and also cybersecurity,
00:02:05a 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,
00:02:09which are computer science, IT, and information
00:02:12systems that were provided by
00:02:15universities that increased the colleges previously. We have a strategic plan.
00:02:18We proceeded from 21 to 25 with a strategic plan that we named
00:02:22the First Strategic Plan, and in it, we outlined the features of
00:02:26and equip them in a way that the university, how it will be at the end of the first five years of
00:02:28the university, and these are the features that we are in today,
00:02:33meaning these 10,000, and we are satisfied, satisfied with them, despite the circumstances and despite the obstacles
00:02:36that we faced, and at the forefront of these obstacles is that
00:02:39the general situation of the country,
00:02:41their laboratories at the state, I mean, we appreciate this and people appreciate this,
00:02:44and students appreciate this matter, I mean, that,
00:02:48I mean, the construction aspect, Chapter
00:02:51Four, I always say that Chapter Four, during ten
00:02:54years, the state did not allocate to the regional university, whether
00:02:58it was two billion, less than two billion, approximately 50
00:03:01million, I remember the number. The first
00:03:05allocation was 222,000. The second allocation was 750,
00:03:10to pay attention to this 50, sorry, 222 million. The second allocation was 750 million. The third allocation was
00:03:13a billion minus a million, meaning almost all of it
00:03:19presidency, 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
00:03:21in 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,
00:03:25located in and it intervened with us a lot
00:03:29is considered one of the sovereign faculties in in terms of organizations. Unfortunately, the international organizations that
00:03:32care about education did not
00:03:362024, approximately. Yes, these approach the university, despite our follow-up with them, and our presentation of their projects and our desire for
00:03:40them to be a partner with us. Only
00:03:42the Saudi Program for the Reconstruction of Yemen interacted with us,
00:03:47in, I mean, in which built us 16 student dorms there,
00:03:49and the building of the vice-presidencies, the academic vice-presidency, the three
00:03:53vice-presidencies: academic, postgraduate
00:03:55our children in
00:03:56of society for studies, and student affairs. The World Assembly participated with us in building
00:03:58the mosque. I say participated, not that it built the mosque alone, but rather it partnered
00:04:02it, I mean, in with the university. The Research and Translation Center
00:04:09and 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
00:04:13We also return to the main center in Roots Association participated with us in the Faculty of Information Technology
00:04:16and Computer Science there. And today, we, in partnership with the local
00:04:20and according to the approved authority, handed over, approximately
00:04:23a month ago, the site of the Faculty of
00:04:26from Administrative and Financial Sciences, and
00:04:29the contractor
00:04:31244, and everyone knows this. is working with the Human Roots Association. This association is the one
00:04:34that participated with us in building the infrastructure
00:04:37of the university that we are currently working with. In any case,
00:04:41we are keen to open
00:04:44degree holders. This authority scientific specializations that society needs.
00:04:47We can say that this We have physics, we have mathematics, we have geology, we have chemistry, we have
00:04:52covers no I mean, biology, life work, we have
00:04:54computer specializations that I mentioned, we have medicine,
00:04:58with the new or second strategic plan,
00:05:02we also have a group of faculties that we hope
00:05:04to open by the end of 31, 27,
00:05:0831, and a group of centers, approximately three centers.
00:05:11A group of specializations
00:05:14that belong to the existing faculties. For example, the Faculty of
00:05:18Medicine, we can expand in it. The Faculty of Computer Science, we can expand in it.
00:05:21The Faculty of Administrative Sciences, we can also expand
00:05:24in it, in addition to the existing programs in it currently.
00:05:28Yes, Doctor, scientific research represents one of the criteria
00:05:32for development for academic institutions. What is the reality of scientific
00:05:35research in the university, and what support do
00:05:39and researchers
00:05:42This is indeed one of the fundamental problems that
00:05:48the university and all Yemeni universities.
00:05:51But the professor
00:05:53strives. Let me here
00:05:57take this opportunity to talk about this issue specifically.
00:06:01The professor used to receive
00:06:04219 Yemeni riyals until
00:06:08before until the date, until the year 20.
00:06:13Of course, 219 was equal to 1000 dollars, a thousand and a little over,
00:06:161,100 dollars,
00:06:18approximately.
00:06:21The professor's salary is still the same. Dr. Maeen
00:06:25Abdulmalik, thankfully, added approximately 30,000
00:06:28Yemeni riyals to the professor, so the professor receives,
00:06:32as they say, for pennies,
00:06:34244
00:06:36Yemeni riyals monthly. Today, 244 is not
00:06:40200 dollars.
00:06:42If he goes to the market and looks for
00:06:46the university professor in general, and
00:06:50I say, through our channel,
00:06:53We know the state's situation, but we must
00:06:57pay attention to this issue. The professor receives
00:07:00244 thousand riyals, and we want the professor to be
00:07:04باحثا وان يكون مدرسا وان
00:07:08sustainable, and therefore we say and hope
00:07:11that the state, with its current circumstances, pays attention
00:07:15to the professor. This has affected the professor's performance.
00:07:18It will certainly affect the professor's performance in the classroom and in the lab and in research. Despite
00:07:22that, we at the university strive
00:07:26in the issue of scientific research and encouraging
00:07:29professors with moral encouragement. As for financially, we cannot actually
00:07:33provide, we cannot provide the professor with
00:07:36a financial
00:07:39to publish his research. Nevertheless, some
00:07:43and
00:07:46research here and there and publish their research. We started this
00:07:49matter in the university with two axes. The first
00:07:52axis is the establishment of a refereed scientific journal
00:07:56in the university, which was established in the university in 2018. Today,
00:08:00the journal is in approximately its ninth volume,
00:08:04and each volume publishes two issues. So we are now in approximately
00:08:0718, 18 issues of the journal. This is a refereed
00:08:11scientific journal that deals with scientific research, and professors, our professors in the university,
00:08:15and others from universities who communicate with us publish in it, researchers
00:08:18at a national level and at an international
00:08:22level. The second axis that we pursued in the university
00:08:24is holding scientific seminars and conferences. We held
00:08:30during these ten
00:08:33years, and they were scientific conferences that we can
00:08:36describe as respectable scientific conferences. The first scientific
00:08:39conference was in 2022, and the first conference
00:08:43was in the year 2025 or
00:08:462024, in May
00:08:49two conferences, we encourage morally, as
00:08:52I said, I mean,
00:08:55the university's academic staff to publish
00:09:00the sites, the international scientific research sites, in Scopus,
00:09:03and Q1 and Q2. These international journals, even
00:09:07though the cost of publication
00:09:10in them is very high. And we, within the strategic plan
00:09:14for the year 2027,
00:09:18matter to a greater extent. But we say
00:09:22and cry out and hope that the state hears us
00:09:25with this cry that the situation of the university professor
00:09:29is a, I mean, miserable situation, if I may
00:09:32say so.
00:09:34The financial amount
00:09:39the university as a monthly salary is
00:09:44I mean, I am not saying anything secret. All universities, all our colleagues in the entire
00:09:48Republic of Yemen receive
00:09:51244. This amount does not even cover the rent
00:09:55of accommodation, let alone the rest of the professor's needs, let alone
00:09:58that the amount provides the professor with, I mean,
00:10:01the atmosphere and the capabilities that
00:10:05help him to, I mean,
00:10:08stability and psychological calm and following up on new developments in
00:10:11his specialization and submitting scientific research, let alone publishing
00:10:15النشر
00:10:17in international journals that raise the university's
00:10:21level in scientific research. Yes, so
00:10:24Dr. Mohammed Mohammed, we will now go to
00:10:28Stay with us, dear viewers, to complete the rest of the discussion about
00:10:31Saba Region University and the challenges it is facing
00:10:35despite the current war
00:10:37conditions.
00:10:45Welcome back, dear viewers, and I reiterate my welcome to
00:10:49Dr. Mohammed. Dr. Mohammed, we now come
00:10:53to the most important issue related to the future of students after
00:10:56graduation. To what extent
00:11:00and neighboring
00:11:03governorates?
00:11:06Of course, before this, I would like to correct that
00:11:09we have three scientific centers: the Academic Development and Quality
00:11:12Assurance Center, the Languages and Translation Center, and the Research
00:11:16and Community Service Center. To clarify further,
00:11:20the Research and Community Service Center has two tracks: the training
00:11:24courses track and the community research
00:11:26track. We have indeed started on this track, the community research
00:11:30track. We have
00:11:32almost
00:11:36completed 35
00:11:38research papers. The difference between the research
00:11:41produced by the Research and Community Service Center
00:11:44and the scientific research published in refereed scientific
00:11:48journals is that those are refereed scientific
00:11:52research papers published in refereed scientific journals.
00:11:55While the research conducted by
00:11:58the Research Center is, I mean,
00:12:05stringent than refereed scientific research.
00:12:08We return to the topic of your question, which is
00:12:12the issue
00:12:14of the university's alignment with the needs of the labor market in scientific
00:12:18In fact, I will talk
00:12:21about this issue from two angles. The first
00:12:25angle is that we in the university have been keen on this matter from the beginning
00:12:29of establishing the university. We
00:12:32built on the existing specializations. The existing
00:12:35specializations that were in the Faculty of Education, Arts, and Sciences were
00:12:3915 specializations when the faculty started, but when we came,
00:12:42these specializations had shrunk that were open to students
00:12:46to seven specializations. We built on these seven specializations, then
00:12:50we were looking for specializations that society needed,
00:12:53and therefore, administrative sciences
00:12:56specializations: accounting,
00:12:59marketing, financial sciences, banking, public administration,
00:13:03business administration. These are some of the specializations that society
00:13:07needs. So we established
00:13:09the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences with two
00:13:13specializations. We started with administration and accounting, then
00:13:16came marketing specialization, and then financial
00:13:19and banking sciences, then public administration.
00:13:23We established Al-Jawf College. It is the only
00:13:26college from 1962, the year of the
00:13:30September 26th Revolution, until 2017,
00:13:33higher education did not enter Al-Jawf governorate.
00:13:37And Saba Region University had, we can say,
00:13:40the precedence and the initiative in establishing a college.
00:13:43And we established the college, and when we established the college, we sat with the local authority
00:13:47and we sat with components of the local authority asking
00:13:51what are the needs of the governorate and what are the specializations that the university
00:13:55needs.
00:13:58And we sat in workshops and agreed
00:14:02on a group of specializations, and we gave a broad name
00:14:04to the college to accommodate more than one specialization. We named it the Faculty
00:14:08of Education, Humanities, and Applied Sciences, so that
00:14:11we can give it, it is a broad name, in fact, but even
00:14:15to give an opportunity to students,
00:14:19and the need, and the need, and the need
00:14:21specializations, we opened mathematics in it, we opened
00:14:26life sciences in it, we opened English in it, we opened
00:14:29public administration, computer science, we opened specializations
00:14:32that the local environmental authority there needed.
00:14:38the university. When we opened Information Technology and Computer
00:14:41Science, we turned it into a faculty. We also considered
00:14:44the needs of the labor market. The Faculty of
00:14:47Medicine was under study for almost two years,
00:14:50and our colleagues
00:14:53working in the field, in hospitals, participated
00:14:57with us, I don't want to mention names, but they participated with us in a workshop, and we held
00:15:01a workshop in 2019, and His Excellency the General and His Excellency the Team Leader and His Excellency
00:15:04the Deputy attended this workshop with us, and components of the local
00:15:09and society attended
00:15:12with us in developing
00:15:16program documents. We are keen
00:15:19that we hold
00:15:21community workshops for every specialization. For every specialization
00:15:25and we are preparing its document, a community workshop must be held, and in the community
00:15:29workshop, we target or it is attended by professors
00:15:32of the department, students who are currently studying in the department,
00:15:36and graduate students. The local authority,
00:15:40private
00:15:43graduate can work in them, for example, banks
00:15:47or exchange houses or large
00:15:50commercial stores, Sharia and Law,
00:15:53judicial
00:15:55enforcement officers in general,
00:15:58the Public Prosecution,
00:16:00the court, law students, I mean, we are keen
00:16:03to hold community events for every
00:16:07program. I mean, we prepared its document, and all
00:16:11the programs we have at the university, thank God, and this is what we are proud of,
00:16:14we prepared their documents according to
00:16:18the Republic of Yemen. We conducted these workshops, so we are
00:16:22very keen to offer
00:16:25programs. These programs,
00:16:28after the student graduates, they will be armed with scientific
00:16:32and practical skills and scientific
00:16:36knowledge. They will find a place in the
00:16:39labor market to work. And when I go to the hospital or
00:16:43I go to the market or something, I find our sons and students who are graduates
00:16:48is something we greatly
00:16:52while acknowledging that in some specializations, we actually open
00:16:55them, we open them
00:16:57for those who wish to study. And we
00:17:01believe that some specializations can be reconsidered, and this is a very natural matter. But
00:17:05nevertheless, they are available to people,
00:17:09even those who desire it. We may have many of our daughters
00:17:12who wish to learn, and she
00:17:16is, I mean, a housewife with her husband and with her children, and she
00:17:20does not study because she wants to go out to the labor market, but she studies for the sake
00:17:23of learning. She comes to the university to learn for the sake
00:17:27of knowledge and acquiring knowledge. So we are keen. This is the
00:17:31first angle, as I told you. I will talk about another topic. We,
00:17:34the universities, it is true that we consider. And this is an important
00:17:38issue. I, in my personal conviction, many of my
00:17:41colleagues, professors, and university
00:17:45may disagree with me, but this is my personal conviction. I say that universities should
00:17:49be the institutions that
00:17:52are concerned with qualification,
00:17:55training, and graduating people. And
00:17:59it is not a condition that this issue
00:18:02be linked to the labor
00:18:06market needing the specialization or not needing it. But
00:18:10in general, all the specializations offered by
00:18:14the university, society in general needs them. The state
00:18:17in general, the environment in general needs them. Today, this
00:18:21is a real problem. We need to, starting from the government,
00:18:25passing through the Ministry of Higher Education, and they are making efforts, in fact, from the head of state,
00:18:29the government, the Ministry of Higher Education, everyone is making efforts in these
00:18:32circumstances. These circumstances are not only on universities, they are on everyone,
00:18:36from the leading institutions to the specialist and to the common
00:18:39citizen. The citizen, I mean, in his environment
00:18:43or in his place or in his home or in, I mean, I say we need
00:18:47matter. Today, there are specializations,
00:18:50among the most important specializations that society in general
00:18:55public universities. I mean, I also say that we must
00:18:59look at these issues. The Faculty of Education today needs a look
00:19:03and a deep look. The Faculty of Education
00:19:06the state, and there was a decision by Prime Minister Abdul Qader
00:19:10Bajamal, may God have mercy on him, in 2006, in which he then
00:19:13prohibited private universities from opening faculties of education because
00:19:16it was available to all universities, and this was, I mean, we say it, I mean,
00:19:20a certificate, I mean, and we also heard that it was
00:19:23an excellent national decision for the Faculty of Education
00:19:27to be exclusive to the state because it is concerned with graduating students, graduating professors
00:19:31who teach our children, who teach schools.
00:19:35The Faculty of Education today is, I mean, in danger, and we need to reconsider
00:19:40the staff and in, I mean, I mean,
00:19:43the salaries of doctors and so on,
00:19:47schools. I mean, when a student graduates from the Faculty of Education
00:19:50and studied for four years, he goes to the field with
00:19:5335,000 riyals. If he drinks tea with it for a month, it is not enough.
00:19:5753,000 riyals. So we need a deep look.
00:20:00All specializations of arts, psychology,
00:20:03philosophy, sociology, these are some
00:20:08of the sciences that people look at like this at first because society does not need them.
00:20:12And therefore, they have no market. So
00:20:15they must be closed. And this is a view, unfortunately, I see it as a short-sighted
00:20:19view. The university must open all scientific
00:20:22specializations because we are the scientific institutions that
00:20:25are concerned with these specializations and preserving
00:20:28and enriching the scientific
00:20:31library with them, and future generations need them.
00:20:35So we say, we and all universities are keen to
00:20:39provide, provide, provide, I mean,
00:20:42but also we are not
00:20:46merchants. The university
00:20:49is not merchants. I mean, what works in the market
00:20:52we don't close. No, we say that we foster
00:20:55knowledge and scholars, and we preserve knowledge and expand
00:20:59with knowledge, and we have to
00:21:02open all specializations that have
00:21:06a direct relationship with community
00:21:08service, but they certainly have
00:21:12an indirect relationship in community service. Yes, Doctor,
00:21:15so I thank you for giving me this opportunity regarding this issue because I hear a lot
00:21:18about this,
00:21:26but in its depths, it may
00:21:29carry something that poses a threat
00:21:33to science
00:21:36science and enriching the scientific library in general. Yes, indeed,
00:21:41complete only with theoretical
00:21:44courses alone. What are the opportunities for training and practical application
00:21:47that the university provides to its students
00:21:50upon graduation? I mentioned before that
00:21:53we prepare the program document.
00:21:57And we have prepared all program documents that we have, and I
00:22:01also mentioned that we prepare the course documents.
00:22:05The program document contains the student's study plan. It
00:22:08talks about the department's outcomes,
00:22:12meaning what the student should be like when he graduates from
00:22:16this specialization, and these are known outcomes,
00:22:21centered in four directions: cognitive, skill-based,
00:22:24general,
00:22:26and mental.
00:22:29This scientific plan describes
00:22:32what are the cognitive aspects
00:22:35that the student must be equipped with, and what are
00:22:39must be equipped with. So it
00:22:43document, and it is also mentioned
00:22:47course has no research.
00:22:52This course has
00:22:55aspect. As
00:22:58for the applied aspect, in fact,
00:23:01we have laboratories
00:23:05for the courses that have both parts,
00:23:07the applied and cognitive aspects, or the purely applied aspect.
00:23:11We have laboratories at the university, and we strove to establish
00:23:16does not disrupt the educational process or according to the available capabilities of
00:23:20the faculty, in the applied
00:23:23programs for physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology,
00:23:26and geology, we have their laboratories. And archeology also, we have
00:23:31the university. We have computer science also, we have its laboratories at the university. We have
00:23:35medicine, we also have its laboratories at the university, approximately four laboratories,
00:23:39in addition to having internal partnerships
00:23:42in the university with Marib Hospital Authority and
00:23:45Kira Hospital and some private hospitals, such as
00:23:48King Salman Eye Center, for example.
00:23:52This is the clinical aspect
00:23:55for medical students. Medical
00:23:59students train in them. And through this program,
00:24:02I thank the Hospital Authority and I thank
00:24:05regard.
00:24:11exchange offices and commercial banks
00:24:15Marib governorate. And thank them also because they deal
00:24:19with us. They welcome our students. The Faculty of Sharia and Law,
00:24:22our students go to state institutions located
00:24:25and concerned with I mean,
00:24:28investigations, the Public Prosecution, the court. And in
00:24:31our design of these faculties, we also prepare,
00:24:34I mean,
00:24:38mock courts, God willing. The Faculty of Sharia is one of the faculties
00:24:41whose building we will construct soon, God willing.
00:24:45And we will be keen to establish internal courts to train students.
00:24:48The demand for it. I mean,
00:24:52the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences also has
00:24:55a laboratory for electronic accounting, and it has
00:24:58a system or application installed on programs that students
00:25:02train on. In general, we are keen that the student
00:25:05receives sufficient knowledge, according to the courses
00:25:10hours, receives the entire theoretical aspect and receives the entire
00:25:14practical aspect, and according to
00:25:17the available circumstances and capabilities. Yes, Doctor. In light
00:25:20of the difficult economic conditions that the country is going through, the suffering
00:25:23of some students in completing their studies emerges. How does
00:25:27the university support students, especially outstanding students and those with limited
00:25:30income, and what are the available facilities?
00:25:32This is a
00:25:35good question. This question can be directed
00:25:38to private universities, why? Because private universities are already
00:25:42supported. They provide education
00:25:45for a fee. They take
00:25:49the cost of education. But we, in public universities in general,
00:25:52not Saba Region University, universities
00:25:56in general in the Republic, education is considered
00:25:58free. Yes, and this is what we say, for example,
00:26:03to people and so on, and the constitution of the Republic
00:26:05of Yemen says that education is free for all Yemeni
00:26:09people without exception. So we provide education as a free
00:26:15per year, per year, 4500 Yemeni riyals.
00:26:20is nothing, and the state, thankfully, provides the salaries
00:26:24of doctors and operating expenses as much as possible for universities
00:26:28and institutions.
00:26:30Due to the lack of allocated operating expenses
00:26:34for faculties in public universities, a door was
00:26:37opened for parallel education and private
00:26:40funding. And universities, in this regard,
00:26:44I mean, they take, and the law has already
00:26:48regulated this issue. You take
00:26:50a certain number, and you have a percentage of
00:26:545%, 10% of the total percentage, 20% of the total percentage
00:26:58accepted in public funding, which is free. You can
00:27:01accept private funding in it, which helps
00:27:04in operating expenses for the university. And we, at the university,
00:27:08were keen from the beginning when the university was established in
00:27:112016 until 2020,
00:27:15we did not enter this door at all, private funding.
00:27:18And also, there is something new, open education
00:27:22and e-learning. We did not enter it. In 2020, we started
00:27:25thinking about this matter so that,
00:27:28I mean, it would provide the university with some
00:27:33After we accept the general expenditure and complete
00:27:37all the requests
00:27:40of the applicants according to the conditions and the absorptive capacity
00:27:43at the department level is completed, we open the door for private expenditure
00:27:47for private expenditure for those who want
00:27:51private expenditure and have the capabilities. Nevertheless,
00:27:55we take into account many issues. Someone comes and tells us he is wounded, he tells us
00:27:58he is displaced and has such and such, and we make reductions and exemptions
00:28:02to a certain extent. So, in summary, the university
00:28:05and the Yemeni public university in general provide
00:28:09education services for free. There
00:28:12were some exaggerations
00:28:15from some
00:28:18fees. A decision was issued by Prime Minister Salem bin
00:28:21Brik in 2005 that set
00:28:24the fees, and all universities committed to the fees. At the level of coordination
00:28:28fees, we used to take 12,000 from female students and 10,000 from male students
00:28:31for coordination. The coordination,
00:28:35are not even enough for the competitive exams, but we used to rely on them. Then the Prime
00:28:39Minister said, "No, 6,000." We all committed to the 6,000. We say
00:28:43that in the university, we committed to the Prime Minister's decision
00:28:46completely regarding student fees. So, the University
00:28:50of Saba Region actually provides
00:28:53education services for free,
00:28:56we consider this a duty that we perform, not a favor or
00:29:00a gift, and it is a constitutional duty. We must provide education in this
00:29:04way. Yes. Excellent, Dr.
00:29:07Mohammed. So, does the university face a shortage of faculty
00:29:10members or specialized competencies, and how do you work to address
00:29:14that?
00:29:16Uh, thank you very much to the state
00:29:22the late President Abd Rabbo,
00:29:24and ending
00:29:28with the Presidential Leadership Council, headed by Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi.
00:29:32Thank you very much also to the Prime Ministers, from
00:29:35Ahmed Abd from Daghr, Dr. Ahmed Daghr, and ending with brother
00:29:39Shallal, Dr. Jalal Shahem. These successive
00:29:42governments have truly
00:29:45made great efforts. We are talking about
00:29:48Saba University, and a special and great thank
00:29:52you to brother Deputy Team Sultan bin
00:29:55Ali Al-Arada, the first supporter, whom we at Saba Region University
00:29:59consider a pioneer of higher education in the Republic
00:30:02of Yemen for higher education in Marib
00:30:05Governorate.
00:30:08Three budgets were approved for Saba Region University: a budget in
00:30:112017, a budget in 2020, and a budget in
00:30:142024. These budgets approved
00:30:17job grades for the academic
00:30:20staff, and thank God, today the number of academic
00:30:23staff at Saba Region University, academic faculty
00:30:27and their assistants, is 361 faculty
00:30:30members and their assistants. Of these
00:30:33361, 222 are PhD
00:30:36holders, and approximately 133
00:30:40or 23 are Bachelor's degree holders, and approximately 30
00:30:43are Master's
00:30:46staff is currently working at the university.
00:30:50staff that was appointed at the university
00:30:55less than 55%.