Yemen has witnessed decades of political unrest and the current armed conflict has significantly impacted human development. The economic activity has been severely disrupted which in turn affected the delivery of public services including the financing and operation of the higher education system (HE), where efficiency was negatively impacted.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the extent of which the internal efficiency of the Yemen HE has been affected. This will be achieved through analysing the main three domains of teaching and learning activities as well as the impacts of the adopted policies by HE management. Structured interviews with standardized closed-ended and open-ended questions were conducted online with 51 academics who have been purposely selected. Despite the devastating effects of the armed conflict, the HE has continued to perform its duties, providing space for learning and contributing effectively in social cohesion. Nonetheless, the education process has been impacted quantitatively and qualitatively.

Yemen has been deprived of its well-qualified human capital, and the brain-drain is still ongoing. The continuity of conflict will yield a generation who is either uneducated or poorly educated, and this will in turn continue feeding the violence and jeopardizing Yemen’s future.

This paper represents a first attempt to study the effects of Yemen’s armed conflict on HE. Future research should shed light on tracing students who abandoned education as well as the level of knowledge, skills and competencies of those lately graduated. The multi-dimensional effects of brain-drain are equally important.

也门目睹了数十年的政治动荡，当前的武装冲突已严重影响了人类的发展。经济活动受到严重破坏，进而影响了公共服务的提供，包括高等教育系统（HE）的融资和运营，而效率受到了负面影响。

这项研究的目的是调查也门HE的内部效率受到影响的程度。这将通过分析教学活动的主要三个领域以及高等教育管理部门采用的政策的影响来实现。在网上对51名被特意选拔的学者进行了结构化的面试，涉及标准化的不限成员名额和不限成员名额的问题。尽管发生了武装冲突的毁灭性后果，但HE继续履行其职责，为学习提供了空间，并为社会凝聚力做出了有效贡献。但是，教育过程受到了定量和定性的影响。

也门被剥夺了其合格的人力资本，人才流失仍在继续。冲突的持续性将导致一代人受过教育或教育程度低下，这反过来又将继续助长暴力并危及也门的未来。

本文是研究也门武装冲突对高等教育的影响的首次尝试。未来的研究应着重于追踪那些放弃教育的学生以及那些刚刚毕业的学生的知识，技能和能力水平。人才流失的多维影响同样重要。