The Houthi militia perpetuates the characteristics of the Imamate rule: a shocking statistic for the number of students enrolled in Dhamar University
English - Sunday 09 July 2023 الساعة 09:02 am
Dhamar, NewsYemen, exclusive:
Since the revolution of September 26, 1962, which put an end to the regime of the Imamate, education in northern Yemen has not witnessed a collapse like the one witnessed since the coup of the Houthi militia against the republican authority in September 2014.
After the militia authorities closed a number of specialized academic study departments at Sana'a University under the pretext of lack of turnout, Dhamar University is heading towards the same scenario in four colleges comprising 26 majors.
On Friday, the head of the Arabic Language Department at the Faculty of Education, Dhamar University, published on his Facebook page a shocking statistic about the number of applicants this year to enroll in the four faculties, as their number did not exceed 45 male and female students.
And it was stated in Dr. Abdullah Salah’s publication that the applicants for admission to the university for the year 2023/2024, and more than a month after the opening of registration and admission, did not exceed 17 students in the College of Education with its ten departments, 17 in the College of Agriculture in its agricultural and veterinary departments, and 9 in the College of Arts in its departments. The eight and two students are only in the College of Applied Sciences, which includes six departments.
Salah pointed out, by way of comparison, in order to know the "magnitude of the disaster", that only the fourth level students in the Arabic language department in 2002, which is the batch in which he graduated, numbered 500 students.
The publication of the Arabic language professor at Dhamar University turned into an open discussion arena between university professors and citizens about the future of the young generation under the rule of the Houthi militia, which in recent years has become devoted to all the features and characteristics of the defunct Imamate rule without shame or deterrence. While the author of the post commented sarcastically that "the future is rich and promising with complex ignorance", one of the academic commentators asked about the reason for the low demand of students to enroll in university education, describing it as a disaster and a threat to the near and distant future, so that Salah's answer came that the reason is poverty and frustration and nothing else, and that the situation This catastrophic situation transcends the level of threatening the future to the level of a "pandemic that does not leave .
He added that the level of turnout in the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering at Dhamar University has also declined by a large and alarming rate, warning that the reluctance of the young generation to enroll in university education means that blind generations will come and that this will be Yemen's major problem in the present and the future.
While one of the citizens linked the youth's reluctance to enroll in university education to cutting the salaries of university professors who live in very difficult life conditions that make young people discouraged from continuing education, another citizen said that keeping people away from education is a primary goal of the Houthi front militia to raise an ignorant generation that they can fill with myths that do not Only a mind devoid of knowledge would accept it.
And just two days ago, the Houthi front militia celebrated what it called "Walayat Day", which arbitrarily interprets the hadith of the Prophet (PBUH) in Ghadir Khumm on the loyalty of Ali bin Abi Talib, in a way that serves its ambition to control power by what it calls "divine right", which Yemenis face with sarcasm. And they describe it as a myth. One of the citizens said, commenting on the post: (Payment of salaries is an auxiliary factor for students to return to study instead of escaping to earn money in order to support their families). Another commented by saying: (People migrated to search for a living in expatriate countries and left education and the country to the owners of the state).
Another academic commented on Salah’s post, that the lack of demand for enrollment in university education is caused by the decline of the middle class to the level of the poor under the rule of the militia, in addition to the closure of job opportunities in front of the outputs of university education, which leads to reluctance to demand university studies in general, which is Which means "return to the time of darkness", referring to the Imamate system of government.
In the same context, one of the citizens commented that if the front militia authorities allocated up to 10% of the total spending on summer centers and added it to the budgets of public universities, this would contribute to solving the problems of university professors’ salaries and students’ reluctance to enroll in university education.
Earlier in the year 2022, activists on social media raised the problem of parallel education fees at Dhamar University, as the university leadership imposed huge amounts of hard currency on those enrolled in this system, including imposing fines on those who are late in paying fees or even those who want to Withdrawing their files as a result of their inability to pay.
The Houthi front militia continues to dedicate sectarian education through the summer centers that it holds every year for school students and through which it injects them with lessons that guarantee their loyalty to the "al-al-Bayt" or those it calls "flags of guidance", in addition to lessons to be hostile to all those who oppose them or compete with them for rule and power.
