Today, Wednesday, Taiz Governor, Nabil Shamsan, opened a new primary and secondary school in Al-Muzaffar District, funded by the Kuwaiti Society.

Education office employees in the Houthi-controlled governorates pledged to raise red badges starting tomorrow, Saturday, as a sign of a union escalation by them to force the Houthi militia to pay their salaries.

Education in Yemen is experiencing a major decline, and Taiz is witnessing a state of paralysis in the educational process as a result of government neglect and the deterioration of teachers’ living conditions without any solutions being put in place, which is reflected on students, as a recent report revealed that about 15.3 thousand students in Taiz dropped out during the first half of the current academic year.

Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak launched today, Monday, in the interim capital, Aden, a project to equip 12 community colleges in the Republic of Yemen, funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, at a cost of more than $57 million.

UNICEF Representative in Yemen, Peter Hawkins, warned that the presence of 4.5 million children out of school in Yemen is a “time bomb,” stressing that Houthi allegations that UNICEF and UN partners are colluding to destroy education in the country are “baseless.”