Almotamar.net - The World Bank (WB) has announced offering Yemen $10 million as a grant for the development of higher education and this grant comes in the wake of the success Yemen achieved in implementation of the first phase of the project for development the higher education financed by the WB.
Deputy higher education minister Dr Mohammed Mutahar has on Saturday made it clear that the grant would focus on the future development of higher education and would be allocated for two main areas. They are the development of administration and higher education establishments; the financial administration, university education financing, supporting programmes of academic education and guarantee of quality.
26september.net quoted Dr Mutahar as saying that the grant will be allocated also to support establishment of a centre for university education development while the second field will focus on improvement of the function of education, assessment of performance and training of university leaderships in addition to development of higher education programmes through adopting competitive financing to help universities and colleges obtain financing to new educational programmes needed by the process of development and the labour market as well as supporting university libraries and introduction of electronic systems.
A team of the International Development Organisation concluded last Thursday a visit to Yemen during which it assessed the project for the development of education and preparation for launching the new project.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.
WB grants Yemen $ 10 million for higher education development
