Mohammed al-Haidari(almotamar.net) - SANA'A- A government report criticized Yemeni universities where the educational level is very low, especially in the absence of planning, order, making sufficient resources available. The report said the expansion in the number of universities (both private and public) was accompanied by the absence of planning and order, which resulted in a big gap within university education institutions, specializations, and market & development demands.
According to the report, much of the educational activities is being dominated by faculties of education.
The report was issued by the Supreme Council for Education Planning. It made it clear that repetition and stereotype are two characteristics that dominate most of specializations, namely humanities sciences that have become a burden on development and waste of the countries' resources.
There are, the report said, 99 scientific departments throughout seven public universities, but they, by means of repetition, reached 428 departments, of which 47 departments for humanitarian studies that are repeated and increased to 245 departments, and 52 departments for applied studies that are repeated to reach 183 departments.
The report, moreover, unveiled the accumulation of students to a worrisome way. The rate of students' failure during their first year reaches in some universities to more than 60 percent and 30 percent in other universities.
According to the report, of which almotamar.net obtained a copy, 83 percent of students registered at the ministry of civil service, are bearers of diploma and bachelor in education. The indicators of labor market are a bad omen of increased rates of unemployment among graduates, the report added.