Private universities grant 125 scholarships to expatriates [Archives:2007/1051/Local News]

SANA'A, May 15 ) Minister of Higher Education Saleh Ba Surrah said private universities in Yemen have granted 125 scholarships to Yemeni prominent expatriate students, and additional 100 scholarships were provided by the government.

The announcement came during a consultative meeting held by the Ministry of Education's leaderships together with rectors of private universities in Yemen. The meeting was hosted by Al-Iman University, a private Islamic university based in Sana'a.

The scholarships were shared between the universities of (Al-Watania,Sheba, Al-Andalos, Future, Modern Sciences, the higher college of the Holly Quran, and Queen Arwa).The spokesman of the Al-Eman University, Al-Zandani, announced that they

grant 50 scholarships for the expatriate students, while the International Lebanon University will give 30 scholarships as internal and 30 others as external. Al-Ahqaf University presented 20 scholarships and two others from the Islamic Science College During the meeting, Ba Surrah congratulated Al-Eman University on the occasion of being a member of the Arabic universities union as an active member and the same for Al-Watania University for getting the membership of the executive committee of the Islamic universities.

The meeting discussed several issues related to the development of higher education of which the completion of the private universities and colleges requirements of the first year of law no. 3 of 2005 in addition to the plan of infrastructure of the private universities and colleges in Yemen.

The meeting also discussed the issue of the implementation of distance – education bylaw, strategy, and standards of admission in the private universities for the academic year 2007-2008.

Ba'Surah stressed on the importance of the continuation of these meetings. He announced that the third meeting will be held in the campus of Al-Ahqaf University.
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