Premier Ali Mujawar said on Saturday Yemen gives priority to human development because it is the cornerstone of sustainable development..

At the opening of the regional conference on education quality and academic accreditation being held in Sana'a, he said the investment in human capital, and especially in higher education and scientific research, is the main engine of economic growth, generating a big developmental base and improving living standards.Spending on education has been rising to the highest level with the education sector given a top priority in the country, he said, as he highlighted steps the Yemeni government has made to provide all support  to the national educational institutions.

 Paying greater attention to academic accreditation has become an urgent national and international demand to produce good educational outputs in line with needs of labour markets, he said.Yemen and the Arab nation are in an urgent need for adopting new trends in academic quality and accreditation to improve scientific research at the present time known as the time of knowledge and science, he said.Moreover, he hailed the role of the private sector in improving education in the country, pointing to the University of Sciences and Technology as a model and urging Yemeni public and private universities to strengthen ties with Arab and Islamic counterparts to serve the quality of education.