Higher education

The competition for the preeminence in science between China and the USA, in preparation for the 2024 US presidential elections. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Is the US about to lose its scientific preeminence?

A study published in Nature reveals that the US continues to lead in areas such as biomedical research, but China's continued investment in materials science, engineering and physical sciences poses a significant challenge to US dominance.
A park in Shanghai. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Again this year, three Israeli universities star among the top 100 in the Shanghai Index

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute and the Technion in Haifa are three Israeli institutions that entered the Shanghai Index 2024, the list of the XNUMX best academic institutions in the world
Higher education in Israel. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Specially funded research at universities in 2019 - 2.58 billion NIS, 930 million of which - for scholarships

50.4% of the budgets were raised by researchers from natural sciences and mathematics. This is according to a report published by the Central Bureau of Statistics for the National Council for Research and Development in the Ministry of Science and Technology
The Hebrew University. Source: Milan.sk / Wikimedia Commons.

A recovery plan was drawn up for the Hebrew University

Sarah Ngosa at the annual Tech Women 2017 student conference that encourages outstanding female students to choose science and technology studies. Source: Courtesy of the Technion.

To see far, to see clearly

Walter. Source: Wikimedia.

You can't study science and technology without Walter

Illustration. Source: University /flickrof Saskatchewan.

Higher education in Israel - selected data for the year 2016

Illustration. Source: University /flickrof Saskatchewan.

310,000 students will start the school year XNUMX on Sunday

Ben Nelson, founder of Minerva, in a lecture at the World Economic Forum in Dubai.

Project Minerva: The future of academia?

Eli Yishai (photo from 2002)

My conversation with Eli Yishai