Dhul-Qadah 28, 1444 AH
Sana’a – His Excellency the rector of the university Professor Mojahed Ali Measar participated today in the meeting of Supreme Council of Higher Education chaired by prime minister Professor Abdelaziz Bin Habtoor. The meeting was held for discussing the paths of developing higher education and scientific research as well as enhancing the academic accreditation standards at all Yemeni universities and taking an urgent actions over them.
The Council approved the general report of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research during the period from 2020 to 2023 , and the recommendations attached to it.
The report included the most prominent achievements in the institutional, educational, academic, scientific and research fields in light of the expansion of opening state and private colleges and universities as well as the educational programs coinciding with activating and strengthening the role of the Academic Accreditation Council in evaluation and ensuring that various universities must meet the standards of quality and academic accreditation, including the approval of the accreditation standards for the human medicine program in accordance with the requirements of the International Federation for Medical Education, which the ministry has been successfully included in the map of the countries recognized by it.
The report reviewed the achievements made in the field of the national vision for building the state related to education sector, in addition to the gains in the field of automation, information technology, development of scientific research and postgraduate studies in all Yemeni universities through holding workshops, scientific conferences aimed at serving higher education and its development in general and achieved the comprehensive topography project for scientific research during the period from 1970 to 2020.
The report included the most important problems, challenges and difficulties faced by the Ministry of Higher Education.
The council blessed the vision of the ministry for establishing educational medical city, as an urgent need for developing the medical education in Yemen.
The council accept the proposal of the ministry for qualifying the demonstrators and instructors to fill the gap of academic staff at private and state universities.
The council adopted the absorptive capacity of the coming year.
The council came up with satisfactory solutions for students who came back home from Sudan.
The council was briefed on the reasons that make student drop out of joining the scientific departments at the universities. Accordingly, a team was formed to conduct a study about that and then submit a report including recommendations to the ministry.