Al-Arhabi receives TIEC team over setting up Al-Saleh University

SANA’A May 25 (Saba)- Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Abdul-Kareem al-Arhabi received on Monday a team of the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC) which was asked to prepare technical studies and special curriculums of Al-Saleh University for Higher Education. Al-Arhabi affirmed importance of achieving the studies related to set up the university especially technical and financial plans, saying that the university would be un-profitable corporation and apply all international admission rules. He added that the university would focus on needs of the development and local and gulf labor markets within recent understandings between Yemen and countries Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to receive Yemeni qualified workers in their labor markets. Al-Arhabi also pointed out to the initiative of President Ali Abdullah Saleh to build the university to meet requirements of the development, saying that the university would contribute to present technical and administrative knowledge to improve the development in the country. AH Saba