His Excellency President Dr. Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Command Council, stressed the keenness of the Presidential Leadership Council and the government to improve educational opportunities, and work on preparing the teacher, curriculum and appropriate school, despite the lack of resources, and the repercussions of the Houthi militia war for the eighth year imposed on us, which destroyed all state institutions and in Provided by the educational institution under the slogan export revolution.
Al-Alimi pointed out that the education sector was at the heart of the sectors affected by the devastating effects of the coup, especially in its basic stages, and in particular those related to girls’ education, ending the relative gains made over decades to promote the principle of equal educational opportunities between the sexes, and government attempts Continuing to create better opportunities for girls as they are the most vulnerable segments of society to drop out and be deprived of basic rights to education, especially in rural areas of the country.
In his speech today, at the Education Summit (the Round Table) within the Educational Transformation Summit held in New York, His Excellency the President pointed out that the education sector in our country suffers from intertwined challenges related to how to reach hundreds of thousands of displaced children, as well as protecting those who Militias recruit them in their hostile acts of war, and use them in extremist sectarian and religious ideological courses, in addition to other practices and restrictions aimed at limiting girls’ enrollment in university education levels.
His Excellency stressed that achieving equal opportunities and supporting girls in educational institutions in our country seems today one of our most important humanitarian and service challenges, as millions of girls and boys out of school are exposed to all forms of violations due to this war and the crisis created by the Houthi militias.
The President said, "You can imagine the great deterioration that hit our educational and service institutions as a whole, and the guarantee of the right to free education for all, which Yemen aspired to since 2007, when the government abolished school fees imposed on girls in the first grades, and the progress towards expanding this strategy to include the abolition of Tuition fees for all girls and boys in the advanced grades, but this was not done as a result of the current war conditions.
He added, "Additional plans at the time, such as hiring female teachers in rural areas, providing food rations to families conditional on keeping their girls in basic education schools, adopting the school grant system, and encouraging community participation, helped to significantly increase girls' access to education." It was undertaken by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and regional and international partners in support of the transitional education plan that takes into account that education is guaranteed to all, and that it comes above all political considerations and narrow interests.
The President stressed that he directed the government to study the project of introducing the public distance education system in coordination with relevant regional and international organizations as one of the possible solutions to keep Yemeni girls and boys in education, and to overcome some of the problems associated with this field.
He said, "We hope that your activities will revive hope in ensuring the right to education for all girls and boys in Yemen and the better future that they deserve. To enhance the educational environment and school safety