Higher education

Israel Academy awards fourteen Adams Fellowships to outstanding doctoral researchers

Recipients in wide ranging fields will receive up to four years of funding as academy leaders stress the importance of supporting Israeli science amid international pressures.

 Sylvan Adams, President of the World Jewish Congress Israel Region
Qatari riyal money bills in pile. Big amount of Qatar QAR currency cash close up.

The problem with foreign money in US universities that congress knows and still has not fixed

Prof. Eduard Yakubov, president of the Holon Institute of Technology

HIT heads to the Jerusalem Post New York Conference

Prof. Eduard Yakubov, president of the Holon Institute of Technology

Israel cannot afford to rely solely on theoretical doctorates


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Could Israelis take fewer matriculation exams to graduate school?

Almost all high school graduates in Israel have taken the Bagrut exams, but such tests cause students to memorize information at the expense of in-depth learning.

Israeli students arrive to school, at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020.

Arab students studying engineering & computer science doubled in 5 years

In addition, the number of female Arab students studying in these fields have tripled.

Tel Aviv University campus

How the opening of the Raphael Recanati International School is different this year

We will soon be opening the new academic year at IDC Herzliya and in the context of the coronavirus, we are preparing for an unconventional semester ahead.

Jonathan Davis, VP IDC Herzliya, Head of the RRIS

Arab students twice as likely to quit studies amid coronavirus crisis

Arab students already face significant disadvantages compared to their Jewish counterparts, but the coronavirus has further exacerbated these.

JEWISH AND Arab students mingle on the Mount Scopus campus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University

Bracing for long distance learning in Israeli higher learning institutes

EDUCATIONAL AFFAIRS: Institutions of higher learning and students are bracing for another semester of socially distanced intercourse.

Scenes like this at Tel Aviv Univerity last year will be replaced by Zoom screens

Day care initiative for health care workers during lockdown begins again

Under the operation "Lev Poem," at least 30 day camps, staffed by 500 volunteers, have been set up at hospitals throughout the country.

Lev Poem daycare initiative for children of healthcare staff working during the coronavirus pandemic

Survey: 47% of youth believe higher education is important

25% of the respondents believe that that university will enable them to earn more money and receive a higher salary.

Education

How can Israel boost haredi higher education?

On My Mind: Only 9% of haredi men and 12% of women studied in higher education.

Haredi men walk through Mea Shearim, Jerusalem

Academic leader calls Elkin ‘commissar of higher education’

The decision to fire Neumann was announced on Monday night and followed Elkin’s failure to appoint Ariel University rector Michael Zinigrad to the CHE’s Planning and Budgeting Committee.

Ze'ev Elkin