The Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training organized on Tuesday a press conference to review the damage to technical and vocational education institutions and community colleges due to the US-Saudi aggression during the past eight years.
At the conference, Minister of Technical Education Ghazi Ali confirmed that the aggression has sought, since for the first day, to target and destroy educational institutions and technical and vocational institutes, realizing the importance of this vital sector, which is dependent on arming the rising generations with science and knowledge that build homelands.
Ali revealed that 67 training institutions in various provinces were severely damaged as a result of being targeted by the aggression warplanes, directly and indirectly.
He explained that the estimated cost of the total damage amounted to 1.billion and 543 million and 983 thousand dollars, of which about 443 million and 983 thousand dollars is the cost of direct damages and about one billion and 100 million dollars is the volume of indirect damages to those institutions.
The Minister of Technical Education pointed out that the aggression warplanes have directly targeted, since March 2015, the operating and ready technical and vocational education institutions that were under construction in various provinces, which revealed the extent of hatred against Yemen and its capabilities, achievements and institutions, whose bombing exceeded all international norms and laws, United Nations charters and heavenly laws.
Minister Ali touched on the psychological and moral damage suffered by students and cadres of technical and vocational education, foremost of which was the loss of cadres due to the interruption of salaries and the martyrdom of many students enrolled in technical education, in addition to the reluctance of many students to join technical education institutions due to the cessation of operational expenses, nutrition and housing.
He pointed to the problems facing technical education institutions in some provinces, including the seizure of institute buildings, the outdated curricula and their inability to keep pace with developments and meet the needs of the labor market.
The Minister of Technical Education confirmed that the aggression had a negative impact on the process of scholarships for early technical students to continue their studies abroad, as well as the rehabilitation of cadres in various disciplines, indicating that the ministry needs to rehabilitate and train cadres in a way that keeps pace with developments and meets the needs.
For his part, deputy Minister of Technical Education Mohammed al-Saqqaf considered the aggression coalition’s persistence in targeting educational and training institutions, targeting the minds, the human element, and the Yemeni identity that has its roots in the depths of history.
Al-Saqqaf referred to the martyrdom of 70 technical education cadres, praising the steadfastness of the rest of the cadres in performing their educational mission during the years of aggression.
He stressed that the ministry will spare no effort in rehabilitating some of the facilities that were damaged and stopped working as a result of the total and partial destruction, pointing out that the outputs of technical education will contribute greatly to the reconstruction of the country
Source: Yemen News Agency