Nasser Al-Sakkaf (author), “When the shell destroyed the entire second floor, we were hiding on the first floor,” Mansur Al-Houthi recalls. On Monday morning at around 8:30 a.m. his house was hit by...
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2015 Education Year: Challenges Ahead
Khalid Al-Karimi (author) On Nov. 24, the prime minister declared 2015 “Education Year,” highlighting the need to improve the country’s educational system and its importance for Yemen’s future...
Residents avoid sending children to school after deadly bombing in Ra’ada city
Ali Aboluhom Fatima and Marwa refuse to go back to class at the Al-Khansa Elementary School for girls. For the two young girls, 12 and 14 years old, a twin car bombing in December in the city of...
Schools in shanties, education system in shambles
Published on 4 November 2014 in Report Nasser Al-Sakkaf (author) At the beginning of September, Samira Mashhoor, the headmaster of Hafsah School in Zabeed distict, Hodeida governorate, started the...
Houthis still occupy schools
Published on 2 October 2014 in News Bassam Al-Khameri (author) SANA'A, Sep. 30—Five schools in the capital remained occupied by armed Houthi members as of Wednesday afternoon. Other schools continue...
Schools on wheels come to Taiz
Mohammad Al-Khayat (author) Shakeeb Jaber did not imagine a day when he would be able to read and write. But when the impossible became possible, the 12-year-old was over the moon. “When I used to...
Amran’s youth struggle for education
It has been more than a month since President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi visited Amran governorate on July 23, officially declaring the governorate to be back under government control. Prior to the...
School enrolment plummets near Houthi camps
Khalid Al-Karimi (author) SANA'A, Sept. 7—Some schools in the capital have seen a decline in enrolment numbers following the volatile security situation in the capital caused by hightened tensions...
ALESCO: Illiteracy exceeds 8 million mark in Yemen
SANA’A, Aug. 27 - There are 8.5 million male and female illiterates in Yemen, which accounts for almost a third of the country’s population of 26 million, according to Dr. Yahya Al-Saidi, manager of...
Studying in the dark
Author: Ali Abulohoom It has been about three weeks since the general exams conducted by the Ministry of Education began for students in grade nine and 12, but For Mohamed Al-Emad, a 19-year-old...
600,000 students begin final exams amid multiple crises
Ali Ibrahim Al-Moshki (author) SANA’A, June 11—About 600,000 students began exams at 4,846 locations nationwide on Tuesday and Wednesday amid a fuel and energy crisis, repeated Internet cuts, and...
Dilapitated schools in Al-Jawf threaten schooling of thousands of students
Published on 3 April 2014 in Report Samar Qaed (author) With slow and hesitant movements, Ahmed Saleh, a 7th-grade student in Al-Jawf governorate, enters his dilapidated school. As he examines rifts...
Sana’a school poses danger to students
Published on 27 March 2014 in Report Amal Al-Yarisi (author) The walls of Al-Shaima girl’s school have seen better days. Doors and windows hang from their hinges and cracks snake along classroom...
Aid incentives lure girls to school
Salman Al-Masham village is located in a rugged, mountainous area of Arhab district in Sana'a governorate, about 25 km from the capital. The village’s local elementary school, which provides...
WFP begins food distribution to schoolgirls
SANA’A, Feb. 19—The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing take-home food rations to 100,000 girls attending school in ten Yemeni governorates, the WFP office in Yemen said...
Uprising resulted in more school dropouts
Published on 13 February 2014 in Report Ali Abulohoom (author) Osama Mofleh, 11, sat down on the pavement of Hadda roundabout dripping with sweat after spending hours moving from one car to another...
Yemen’s teachers aren’t making the cut
Published on 2 January 2014 in News Nasser Al-Sakkaf (author) SANA’A, Jan. 1—The Education Ministry said in a consultative meeting held this week that half of Yemen’s teachers lack the qualifications...
WFP funded food assistance programs target schools
Published on 25 September 2013 in News Rammah Al-Jubari (author) SANA’A, Sept. 25—Committees associated with the School Feeding Project at the Ministry of Education began, on Tuesday, distributing...
Hundreds of schools currently being rebuilt
Ali Ibrahim Al-Moshki (author) During the revolution, armed militias and government forces used hundreds of children’s schools as barracks and firing points. When the soldiers and militiamen left,...
USAID helps rehabilitate Sana’a schools
Published on 29 November 2012 in Report Ashraf Al-Muraqab (author), Ashraf Al-Muraqab (photographer) Students gathered at Ruqia School in Sana’a to launch the new rainwater collection system. They...