Prime Minister calls for resumption of education process, stresses importance of establishing public education fund

Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak called on Sunday to resume the educational process and prepare for exams as a duty and right for male and female students, stressing the importance of establishing a public education fund.

This came during his chairing of a meeting in the interim capital, Aden, which included the Minister of Education, Tariq Al-Akbari, the State Governor of Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, and a number of concerned parties, according to the Yemeni News Agency, Saba.

The meeting discussed the measures to resume the educational process in Aden schools, and to resolve the demands of male and female teachers in order to ensure that education does not stop, as this has devastating consequences for the future of generations.

Bin Mubarak stressed that the government, in coordination with local authorities, is keen to improve the conditions of male and female teachers and approve appropriate increases in their salaries and due allowances.

He directed the formation of a technical team from the Ministry of Education and Aden Governorate to develop the necessary treatments, propose appropriate solutions to complete the curricula and teach male and female students, arrange for exams on their specified date, and submit the results reached for approval.

The Prime Minister was informed by the Ministers of Education and State and the Governor of Aden about the proposed solutions and necessary arrangements to resume the educational process.

Bin Mubarak renewed the government's expression of pride, appreciation, and follow-up of the struggles of male and female teachers, despite the difficult living conditions resulting from the ongoing war of the terrorist Houthi militias.

He stressed that the government is not far from the concerns of male and female teachers and fully understands their just legal demands and is working within the available capabilities to meet them.

The Prime Minister stressed that education is a priority for the government, and the cornerstone of awareness, development, and defeating the dark, priestly Houthi project.

He also stressed the importance of developing a sustainable strategy for education and ensuring teachers’ rights, including establishing the Yemeni General Education Fund and allocating sustainable resources to this fund to meet teachers’ entitlements, livelihoods and needs, and to support education in general, according to transparent and fair mechanisms, in partnership with the private sector, brothers and friends.

For more than two months, some liberated Yemeni governorates have witnessed a complete paralysis in the educational process after teachers went on strike to demand the improvement of their conditions, including raising their salaries.