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00:00:0344 doctoral students We have already started
00:00:05and 504 master's students,
00:00:27Today, we are receiving, a fundamental pillar in building societies
00:00:31and producing
00:00:32accommodation, this amount competencies and keeping pace with scientific
00:00:35and technological transformations. In Ma'rib Governorate,
00:00:39we say this. Saba Region University strict than represents one of the academic institutions
00:00:42on which
00:00:44on this matter. In great hope is placed in qualifying youth and expanding
00:00:48programs higher education opportunities and contributing to the development process
00:00:54and a competitor. This situation, of course, is not We have despite the challenges imposed by the war conditions and limited capabilities. But to what
00:00:58distributed among the five programs. extent has the university achieved its goals?
00:01:00What is the reality of the quality of education and specializations?
00:01:04Have its outputs kept pace with the needs of the labor market?
00:01:08What are its plans for a more developed
00:01:30what it has achieved today. How do you evaluate the journey of Saba
00:01:33Region University since its establishment and what are the most prominent achievements
00:01:37during these
00:02:00as you know, started with a college. This college started in
00:02:032006. It was established due to political circumstances
00:02:06at that time, unfortunately, and not
00:02:09in bachelor's degrees, due to scientific circumstances or scientific needs
00:02:12or to achieve scientific goals, but
00:02:16rather it was established to achieve political goals
00:02:19in 2006.
00:02:22The local authority did not fail us It did not receive the necessary attention and care
00:02:26that should be given to any college opened
00:02:30Its headquarters is in any governorate. It was, of course, a college affiliated with Sana'a University
00:02:33and remained providing
00:02:37started in the college its services with great difficulty until
00:02:402013. In 2013, education there stopped.
00:02:43Then we resumed work
00:02:46in, that is, in there specifically on November 8, 2016.
00:02:49We started with the College of Education, Arts, and Sciences,
00:02:53this number because as it was called then. On
00:02:56November 16, 2016,
00:03:00which is approximately three months after the college opened or resumed
00:03:05focusing on this its work, to be precise, a presidential decree was issued to establish Saba Region University.
00:03:09We started with
00:03:11under the university's name the specializations that were in the college, but
00:03:14in the same year,
00:03:17we opened two colleges: the College of Sharia and Law and the College of Administrative
00:03:21and Financial Sciences. Its initial name was the College of Administrative Sciences,
00:03:25the university as a monthly then after about two years, we changed its name to the College of Administrative and Financial Sciences.
00:03:27It had two departments, but
00:03:30if we move to today, today, Saba Region
00:03:34University now
00:03:38244,000. This we started with this number in the college, includes seven colleges, and among these colleges is the College of Medicine, which, God willing,
00:03:42and components from the local two months from this interview, or three months,
00:03:45we will all celebrate, God willing, the graduation of the first batch
00:03:48from the College of Medicine, human medicine, general surgery,
00:03:52God willing. Approximately 47 male
00:03:56and female students will graduate with us
00:04:00as the first batch to graduate
00:04:03from the College of Medicine, Saba Region University.
00:04:07Indeed, we have been keen The name of our college is the College of Medicine
00:04:08level in scientific and not the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, but rather
00:04:12its name is the College of Medicine.
00:04:15We also have the College of Information Technology
00:04:17where and Computer Science. Of course, the College of Medicine has only one department so far,
00:04:20one department. The College of Information
00:04:23Technology and Computer Science has five
00:04:25specializations.
00:04:28Among the specializations available there is cybersecurity.
00:04:31Our students in cybersecurity are currently at the third level.
00:04:35We also have a new specialization this year, artificial
00:04:38intelligence. We are receiving the first batch
00:04:42this year, in addition
00:04:45to education specializations,
00:04:47at the university and all Yemeni arts specializations,
00:04:49specialized computer labs science specializations,
00:04:51and a specialized computer college and administrative and financial sciences, and Sharia and Law, as
00:04:55I mentioned. The programs we currently
00:04:57in the new building offer at the university for the bachelor's level are 33
00:05:00scientific programs. So today we have 17 seven
00:05:04colleges, 33
00:05:08programs
00:05:10the latest developments, for bachelor's degrees, applied programs and humanities
00:05:13and administrative programs. We also opened
00:05:16master's programs in 2018 and started with three programs.
00:05:20Today, we have approximately 30
00:05:23master's and doctoral programs open at the university.
00:05:2525 master's programs
00:05:29distributed among the colleges of Arts, Education,
00:05:33Sciences, Computer Science,
00:05:36and Administration.
00:05:39this week and last week,
00:05:43students in the Business Administration department
00:05:47for the master's program. We will soon, God willing,
00:05:50also open executive business administration,
00:05:53God willing. The important thing is that we now have
00:05:57approximately 25 master's
00:06:00and five doctoral programs.
00:06:04approximately 44
00:06:07male and female doctoral students
00:06:10We have 504 students distributed among
00:06:14master's specializations. The number of those
00:06:18who have already been awarded
00:06:21a master's degree from
00:06:25120 male and female students in various
00:06:28specializations. We have three centers
00:06:31also at the university, which are important centers:
00:06:34the Center for Academic Development and Quality Assurance, which is concerned
00:06:38with the quality of the educational process at the university and observing
00:06:42or monitoring the
00:06:44indicators of academic accreditation
00:06:48or academic accreditation standards and the extent of their application in the educational
00:06:52process in general at the university. We also have two centers,
00:06:56and we consider the other two
00:06:58centers to be a service to the community,
00:07:02which are the Language and Translation Center
00:07:05and the Research and Community Service Center.
00:07:09This is approximately what the university has achieved
00:07:13after ten years: seven colleges, three centers,
00:07:17three scientific centers, 33 specializations
00:07:2230 specializations in master's
00:07:25studies and doctoral studies.
00:07:29Excellent, Dr. Mohammed. With the expansion of the university's
00:07:33role, the student enrollment figures stand out.
00:07:36How many male and female students are currently
00:07:40enrolled, and how will it be managed
00:07:43if the number increases?
00:07:46Of course, we
00:07:50with 17 classrooms and a lab.
00:07:52In the first year of the university's establishment
00:07:56in 2016-2017, we received
00:07:581659 male and female students.
00:08:01I still remember
00:08:05for us at the university, it is a significant number, and it is the foundational
00:08:09year, as they say, and an important number.
00:08:12We remember it because it is the beginning
00:08:16of the university. Today, after ten years,
00:08:19and the graduation of five batches
00:08:23from the university, the last of these batches was celebrated by all of us
00:08:27last year, with the presence of the Deputy
00:08:30Commander, Sultan.
00:08:34He honored us at that ceremony, and almost everyone
00:08:37knew about the ceremony, where 112
00:08:40graduated last year.
00:08:421142 students.
00:08:45In any case,
00:08:49with 235 students. In the first year, we accepted
00:08:521659
00:08:56male and female students. Today, we are at Saba Region University. For bachelor's
00:08:59degrees only,
00:09:02those who are currently studying
00:09:03are 19,362
00:09:07male and female students, distributed among the 33 bachelor's specializations.
00:09:10I said we had 17 classrooms
00:09:14and labs. Today, thank God, we started focusing on
00:09:17the infrastructure, the classrooms
00:09:21and labs that can accommodate this number, because the situation is a war
00:09:24situation, and the country's situation also does not allow for construction.
00:09:28In Yemeni law, every college is considered an infrastructure that must have
00:09:31its complete and independent infrastructure. We focused on classrooms
00:09:35and labs. Today, at the university, there are, besides the new college that
00:09:38we opened about two months ago,
00:09:4264 classrooms and 13 labs. These 64
00:09:46classrooms and 13 or 14 labs accommodate
00:09:49the students currently at the university. There are six
00:09:53colleges. Two months ago, we moved to the new college, which is
00:09:57the College of Information Technology and Computer Science. It has about seven
00:10:04and 14 classrooms. It provides
00:10:07computer college services
00:10:10on the new campus of the university. 1600
00:10:13students. The 1600 are, of course, part of
00:10:17the 19,362
00:10:19students. This is approximately the number of students distributed
00:10:23among the postgraduate students:
00:10:30besides the courses
00:10:32and programs offered
00:10:35by the Language Center and the Research and Community
00:10:38Service Center. Last year, approximately
00:10:4225 people benefited from
00:10:45the Language Center, approximately 1800 students in various
00:10:49courses. The number of hours we provided at the Research
00:10:52and Community Service Center last year was approximately 11,000
00:10:56hours. We provided them in general
00:11:00programs and courses
00:11:03for community service. Yes, Dr. Mohammed, the success of a university
00:11:06is not measured by the number of its students
00:11:10and colleges only, but by the quality of education it provides.
00:11:13How do you ensure the quality of the educational process in light of the circumstances
00:11:17the country is going through? Indeed, the circumstances have
00:11:21affected everyone, even a man in his home,
00:11:25and children at school. At all levels
00:11:28of people's lives, the general circumstances and the war that
00:11:32the Houthi militias have waged and are still waging
00:11:35on the country, its resources, the Yemeni people, and state institutions
00:11:41everyone. But
00:11:44that we try
00:11:47as much as possible, with the available resources, to defy
00:11:52situation. From the early days
00:11:55of the university, we were keen
00:11:58to establish the Center for Academic Development and Quality Assurance
00:12:04in 2018. That is, approximately
00:12:07one and a half years after the university
00:12:10This center is concerned with
00:12:14the quality of the entire educational process,
00:12:17starting from the training aspects,
00:12:21through the description
00:12:24of academic programs and the description of academic courses
00:12:27and their follow-up,
00:12:30meaning measuring
00:12:34student performance, classroom quality,
00:12:37lab quality, the environment or the educational
00:12:41environment in general at the university, within
00:12:45national standards
00:12:48led by the Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance Council
00:12:52of Higher Education in the Republic of Yemen.
00:12:55in the interim capital, Aden. It is true that this center
00:12:59was delayed. It was an old center since 2009, and its headquarters was in Sana'a,
00:13:02the capital. But with the recent war,
00:13:05the entire state was moved to the interim capital, Aden.
00:13:09Among the national councils at the national level
00:13:12that were moved to Aden is the Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance Council of Higher Education. Its name
00:13:16is thus, by law, the Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance Council
00:13:20of Higher Education in the Republic of Yemen. The council
00:13:22is now playing an excellent and wonderful role.
00:13:26It is creating momentum and competition among universities.
00:13:30Last year, we participated last year and the year before last,
00:13:33but last year the council created competition among universities in
00:13:37an activity called "Quality
00:13:41Week" to spread the culture
00:13:44of quality and quality concepts. Thank God,
00:13:48Saba Region University won first place in this activity,
00:13:51and we were honored in Aden. I attended the honoring ceremony and received the council's
00:13:55shield
00:13:58in this activity. We are very keen to ensure that the educational
00:14:01process proceeds within the quality standards of higher education
00:14:04in Yemen, and this is what
00:14:07we guarantee through the program documents,
00:14:11the course documents, and the strategic plan. We will talk about the strategic
00:14:15plan, God willing. God willing. So, with scientific
00:14:18and technological acceleration, Dr. Mohammed, the necessity of keeping pace
00:14:21with modern specializations emerges. To what extent
00:14:25does the university keep pace with scientific developments, especially in the fields of artificial
00:14:28intelligence and technology?
00:14:32on this matter and focused on it from the beginning.
00:14:35We faced real challenges.
00:14:39The reality in which the country lives in general, and the reality
00:14:42in which Ma'rib Governorate lives in particular,
00:14:45and the reality in which the community
00:14:49that lives or resides in Ma'rib Governorate lives. The war,
00:14:52since 2016,
00:14:56when the university opened, and the Houthi missiles were raining
00:14:59down on people's heads, on people's homes, and on people's gatherings.
00:15:03We had at the beginning
00:15:06a computer department, and this is one of the departments that opened in the College of Education,
00:15:10Arts, and Sciences in 2006.
00:15:13We built on it in 2017.
00:15:16We built on this department and opened a new department called
00:15:19Information Systems, and we opened the College of Information Technology and Computer Science.
00:15:23We continued with this situation with two departments
00:15:27in the college for almost two years, and out of our belief
00:15:30that we, as a university, must follow
00:15:35especially in the specializations
00:15:38that have demand in the labor market.
00:15:41We added IT to
00:15:44computer science, then we added cybersecurity in 2023,
00:15:48and this year, as I mentioned earlier, we added artificial
00:15:51intelligence. We hope that the College of Information
00:15:55Technology and Computer Science, God willing, in the technical
00:15:58aspect, will meet
00:16:01and keep up with new specializations, God willing, and strive
00:16:04to open them as much as possible and also strive
00:16:07for the quality of the educational and training
00:16:11material for the student so that the student
00:16:13graduates armed with a professional aspect and knowledge
00:16:16for the labor market. We are keen
00:16:21the technical aspect, we feel that we have
00:16:24competed. We don't say we have competed, but we have
00:16:28strived to provide specialized
00:16:31scientific services that the labor market needs,
00:16:34foremost among them artificial intelligence, which today
00:16:38has become a cry among all people, artificial intelligence, and also cybersecurity,
00:16:41in addition to the specializations that were available early on,
00:16:45which are computer science and IT and information
00:16:48systems that colleges used to offer previously.
00:16:52We have a strategic
00:16:55from 2021 to 2025 with a strategic plan that we called the First
00:16:58Strategic Plan, and in it we outlined the university's features
00:17:02and how it will be at the end of the first five years of the university.
00:17:06These are the features that we are in today, and we are
00:17:09satisfied with them despite the circumstances
00:17:12and obstacles that we faced, foremost among these obstacles
00:17:16is the general situation of the country.
00:17:19this, and people appreciate this, and students appreciate this.
00:17:23That is, the construction aspect,
00:17:26Chapter Four. I always say that Chapter Four,
00:17:30over the past ten years, the state has not allocated to Saba Region University
00:17:33except two billion
00:17:36minus about 50 million. I remember
00:17:39the number. The first allocation was
00:17:4222200. The second allocation was 750,
00:17:45sorry, 222 million. The second allocation was 750 million. The third
00:17:49allocation was one billion minus one million. That is, almost
00:17:53one billion and 97 million
00:17:56Yemeni Rials over these ten years.
00:18:00in the infrastructure and intervened
00:18:03a lot in what is the case.
00:18:06Unfortunately, the international organizations concerned
00:18:09with education did not approach the university,
00:18:12despite our follow-up and our presentation of its projects
00:18:16and our desire for it to be a partner with us. Only the Saudi
00:18:18Program for the Reconstruction of Yemen responded,
00:18:22which built us 16 student
00:18:26residences there and the building of the academic vice-dean's office,
00:18:30the three vice-deanships for academic affairs, postgraduate studies, and student affairs. The World Assembly
00:18:34participated with us in building the mosque. I say participated, not
00:18:37built the mosque alone, but the university participated,
00:18:41and the Research and Translation Center.
00:18:44Student Care Association established with us the health unit there.
00:18:47The Humanitarian Origins Association participated
00:18:51with us in the College of Information Technology and Computer Science there. Today,
00:18:54we are also, in partnership with the local authority,
00:18:58handed over, about a month ago, the site of the College of Administrative
00:19:02and Financial Sciences. The contractor
00:19:05is also working with the association.
00:19:08This profit-making association participated with us in building
00:19:11the university's infrastructure that we are currently
00:19:14working with. In any case, we return to the question and say that we
00:19:17are keen to open scientific specializations that the community
00:19:21needs. We have physics, we have mathematics, we have
00:19:25geology, we have chemistry, we have, that is,
00:19:29biology, we have computer
00:19:32science specializations that I mentioned. We have medicine. The strategic
00:19:36plan, and the second also, we have
00:19:39a group of colleges that we hope to open by the end
00:19:43of 2031, and a group of centers,
00:19:46approximately three centers,
00:19:49and also a group of specializations that belong to the existing
00:19:52colleges, for example, the College of Medicine, we can expand in it.
00:19:56The College of Computer Science, we can expand in it. The College of Administrative Sciences, we can
00:19:59also expand in it, in addition to the existing programs
00:20:03in it currently. Yes, Doctor, scientific
00:20:06research represents one of the criteria for the development of university
00:20:10institutions. What is the reality of scientific research at the university, and what support
00:20:13do faculty members and researchers receive?
00:20:17This is one of the fundamental problems
00:20:21that we suffer from
00:20:25universities, but
00:20:27the professor strives, and allow me
00:20:30here to seize this opportunity and talk about
00:20:34this issue in particular. The professor
00:20:37used to receive 219
00:20:41Yemeni Rials until before
00:20:45the events, until the year 2020.
00:20:47Of course, it was 219
00:20:50thousand Yemeni Rials, which is approximately
00:20:541100 dollars. The professor's
00:20:56salary is still the same. Dr. Moeen Abdulmalek,
00:21:00thankfully, added approximately 30,000 Yemeni Rials
00:21:04for the professor, so the professor
00:21:07receives, as they say, 244
00:21:10thousand Yemeni Rials per month.
00:21:14Today, 244,000 is not 200
00:21:17dollars. If he goes to the market and looks for
00:21:22is not enough for the professor's accommodation. So the situation of the university professor
00:21:25in general, and I say through our channel, Yemen Channel,
00:21:29We know the state's situation,
00:21:32but we must pay attention to this
00:21:35issue. The professor receives 244
00:21:39thousand Yemeni Rials, and we want the professor to be a researcher and a teacher
00:21:44sustainable. Therefore, we say and hope
00:21:48that the state, despite its current circumstances,
00:21:51will pay attention to the professor. This has affected the professor's
00:21:55performance. It will certainly affect the professor's performance in the classroom, in the lab, and in research.
00:21:59Nevertheless, we at the university strive in the issue
00:22:03of scientific research and encouraging
00:22:06professors, encouraging them morally. As for
00:22:09financially, we cannot actually provide for the professor
00:22:12a financial aspect
00:22:15so that he can publish his research. Nevertheless, we find some
00:22:19professors struggle
00:22:23and search here and there and publish their research. We started with
00:22:26this matter at the university with two axes. The first axis is
00:22:30the establishment of a refereed scientific journal at the university, which
00:22:34was established at the university in 2018. Today, the journal is almost
00:22:38in its ninth volume, and each
00:22:40volume publishes two issues. So we are now in
00:22:44the 18th issue of the journal. This is a refereed
00:22:48scientific journal concerned with scientific research,
00:22:50where professors from the university and other universities
00:22:54who contact us publish as researchers at the national
00:22:58and international level. The second axis
00:23:01that we pursued at the university is holding scientific
00:23:04seminars and conferences. We held two scientific
00:23:08conferences at the university during these ten years, and they were
00:23:11reputable scientific conferences, we can say.
00:23:14The first scientific conference was in 2022, and the first
00:23:18medical conference was in 2025
00:23:22or 2024 in May 2024, approximately.
00:23:26We encourage morally, as I
00:23:29said, that
00:23:32the academic university publish
00:23:36the international scientific research databases, in Scopus,
00:23:40and Q1 and Q2. These are international journals,
00:23:43even though the cost of publishing
00:23:46in them is very high. We are, within the strategic
00:23:50plan for the year 2027-2031,
00:23:55matter more. and cry out, and we hope
00:23:58that the state hears
00:24:02our cry, that the situation of the university professor is
00:24:05a deplorable situation, if I may say so.
00:24:08The financial amount that the professor
00:24:11receives from
00:24:15salary, that is,
00:24:18244,000, everyone knows this. I am not saying anything
00:24:22secret. All universities, all our colleagues throughout the Republic
00:24:26of Yemen, receive
00:24:28amount is not even enough to cover rent,
00:24:32let alone the professor's other needs, let alone
00:24:35providing the professor with
00:24:38the atmosphere and the capabilities
00:24:41that help him achieve
00:24:45stability and psychological calm and follow up on new developments in his specialization
00:24:48and submit scientific research, let alone
00:24:51publishing in international journals
00:24:55that raise the university's
00:24:58research. Yes, Dr. Mohammed, let's now go to
00:25:02a short break, and then we will return. Stay with us, dear viewers, to continue
00:25:06the discussion about Saba Region University and the challenges
00:25:10it faces despite the current
00:25:12war
00:25:14situation.
00:25:30the issue most closely related to students' future
00:25:33after graduation. To what extent do the university's outputs match
00:25:36the needs of the labor market in Ma'rib and neighboring
00:25:39governorates?
00:25:42First, I would like to correct that we have three scientific
00:25:46centers: the Academic Development and Quality Assurance Center, the Language
00:25:49and Translation Center, and the Research
00:25:53and Community Service Center. To clarify
00:25:56further, the Research and Community Service Center has two tracks:
00:25:59the training courses track and the community
00:26:02research track.
00:26:05on this track, the community research track.
00:26:09We have
00:26:12conducted approximately 35 researches.
00:26:15The difference between the research produced by the Research
00:26:19Center and the scientific
00:26:22research published in refereed scientific journals is that
00:26:26the latter are refereed scientific researches published
00:26:30in refereed scientific journals,
00:26:32while the research conducted by the Research
00:26:36Center is less
00:26:41refereed scientific research. We return to
00:26:44the question you raised, which is the issue
00:26:48of
00:26:51the university keeping pace with the needs of the labor market
00:26:54in scientific specializations. In fact, I will talk
00:26:58about this issue from two angles.
00:27:01The first angle: We at the university have been keen
00:27:05on this matter from the beginning of our establishment of the university.
00:27:08We built on the existing specializations.
00:27:12The existing specializations that were in the College of Education, Arts, and Sciences were
00:27:1515 specializations when the college started, but when we came, these
00:27:19specializations open to students had decreased
00:27:23to seven specializations. We built on these seven specializations, then
00:27:26we searched for the specializations that the community needs.
00:27:30Therefore, accounting, marketing, financial
00:27:34sciences, banking, public administration, business administration—these are some
00:27:37of the specializations that the community needs.
00:27:41So we established the College of
00:27:44Administrative Sciences and Finance with two specializations.
00:27:48We started with administration and accounting
00:27:51specializations, then marketing
00:27:55came after that, and then financial and banking sciences,
00:27:58then public administration. We established Al-Jawf College,
00:28:02which is the only college
00:28:05since 1962, that is, the September 26
00:28:08Revolution, until 2017, higher education had not entered
00:28:12Al-Jawf Governorate. The University of Iqli
00:28:15Saba, we can say, had the initiative
00:28:18and the lead in establishing a college. We established the college, and after we established
00:28:21the college, we sat with the local authority and we sat with components of the local
00:28:25authority, asking what are the governorate's needs
00:28:29and what are the specializations that the university can offer. And the governorate
00:28:33is in need of them. We sat in sessions,
00:28:36workshops, and agreed on a set of specializations, and we gave
00:28:40the college a broad name so that it could accommodate more than one specialization.
00:28:44We named it the College of Education, Human and Applied Sciences
00:28:47so that we could give it a broad name, actually,
00:28:50but to give an opportunity
00:28:52to students
00:28:55and the needs of society from the specializations
00:28:58we opened in it. We opened mathematics,
00:29:01we opened life sciences, we opened English,
00:29:04we opened general administration, computer science,
00:29:07we opened specializations that the environmental authority
00:29:10there was in need of. We also return to the main
00:29:14center in the university when we opened information technology and computer
00:29:17science, we converted it into a college. We also took into account the needs
00:29:21of the labor market, the College of Medicine,
00:29:24during which the study lasted almost two years.
00:29:27And our colleagues
00:29:30working in the health field in hospitals participated here,
00:29:33meaning, and I don't want to mention his name, but they participated with us in a workshop,
00:29:36and we held a workshop almost in 2019, and Brother Major General and Brother
00:29:40Lieutenant General, Brother Deputy, attended this workshop with us,
00:29:45authority and from
00:29:48the community participated in developing the programs, in developing
00:29:52the program documents.
00:29:54We are keen to conduct
00:29:58a community workshop for every specialization, for every
00:30:01specialization, and we prepare its document. The community workshop must be held,
00:30:05and in the community workshop, we target, or it is attended by, department
00:30:09professors, students who are studying in the department, graduated
00:30:13students, local authorities,
00:30:17private institutions,
00:30:20this graduate can work, for example, banks
00:30:23or money exchanges or exchange offices,
00:30:26large commercial stores, Sharia
00:30:29and Law, judicial enforcement officers
00:30:33in general, the prosecution,
00:30:36the court, lawyers. We are keen
00:30:40to hold community practices, and every
00:30:43program, meaning we prepared its document, and all
00:30:47programs in our university, praise be to God, and this is what we are proud of,
00:30:51we prepared their documents according to the quality and academic
00:30:54accreditation standards in the Yemeni Republic. We held this
00:30:57workshop, so we are keen.