Sana’a University Council Holds 6th Regular Meeting for Academic Year 1447 AH, Issues Several Academic and Administrative Resolutions

Saturday, 29 November 2025 (8 Jumada Al-Akhirah 1447 AH)

The Sana’a University Council convened today for its sixth regular meeting of the 1447 AH academic year, chaired by Prof. Mohammed Ahmed Al-Bukhaiti, Rector of Sana’a University.
Vice Minister of Education and Scientific Research, Prof. Hatem Al-Dois, joined part of the session, reaffirming in his remarks the ministry’s commitment to supporting Sana’a University and stressing the importance of unified institutional efforts to strengthen its role. He highlighted the university’s significant role as an active partner in national policymaking and educational development, noting that Sana’a University stands as Yemen’s largest higher-education institution in terms of enrollment, infrastructure, and academic activity. These capacities, he added, have solidified its standing as a leading model for universities across Yemen.
During the meeting attended by the University’s vice rectors, assistants, and faculty deans, the Council approved several academic and administrative resolutions, including:
1. Restricting exam control duties to officially appointed staff in all faculties.
2. Allocating six free postgraduate seats for university employees (three for MAs and three for PhDs).
3. Approving the appointment, confirmation, regularization, and promotion of 22 faculty members across the faculties: Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Sharia and Law.
4. Contracting three faculty members on an hourly basis in the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
5. Launching the e-pilot attendance system for students and faculty members during the second semester of the 1447 AH academic year.
6. Prohibiting the transfer of student data from the coordination stage to registration without complete documentation in line with the procedural guide.
7. Approving new postgraduate admission procedures requiring file submission through the Vice-Rector’s Office for Postgraduate Studies and issuance of original certificates only after verification and final endorsement by the Vice Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research.
8. Approving the Higher Committee for Scientific Research’s recommendation to grant publication rewards to four researchers.
9. Adopting the MA Program Specification Document at the Center of Public Administration (CPA).
10. Approving diploma programs for non-specialists at the Center of Business Administration.
11. Approving academic level-improvement diploma programs for the Faculty of Science in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics.
12. Approving the level-improvement diploma at the Faculty of Sharia and Law.
13. Approving specialization pathways for postgraduate programs in the Faculties of Sharia and Law, Arts and Humanities, and Agriculture, Food, and Environment.
14. Endorsing the specialization pathway for Measurement and Evaluation at the Educational Psychology Department, Faculty of Education, Sana’a.
15. Approving the MA Program at the Protected Agricultural Environment Center (PAEC).
16. Approving double-sided printing for postgraduate theses exceeding 500 pages, single-sided for those under the threshold.
17. Adopting publication regulations for MA and PhD theses in applied sciences, humanities, intellectual studies, and topics of sensitive or uniquely Yemeni relevance.
18. Ratifying results for 46 postgraduate students, including MA, PhD, and Level-improvement Diploma, as well as the Sharia and Law Diploma.
19. Endorsing graduation lists from the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Education (Sana’a), Faculty of Education (Khawlan), Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and Faculty of Petroleum and Natural Resources.
The Council also reviewed several additional matters relating to academic, postgraduate, and student affairs and issued corresponding resolutions.
The meeting opened with the approval of the minutes from the Council’s previous meeting.