The higher education crisis

Presidents, rectors and CEOs of research universities in Israel, including Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, chairman of the RA and president of Bar Ilan University; Prof. Asher Cohen, president of the Hebrew University; Prof. Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University; Prof. Uri Sion, president of the Technion; Prof. Alon Chen, president of the Weizmann Institute and Prof. Ron Rubin, president of Haifa University. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Hebrew University

The presidents of research universities in Israel: We are worried about the government's harassment of academia, the buds and effects of which we are already seeing

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The committee of heads of universities published a special announcement this morning following the cancellation of the reason for reasonableness in the Knesset and the fear of the inability of the judicial system to assist in such cases. The universities will assist any faculty member who joins the protest. "And the educated at the time
Professor Menachem Ben Sasson, former president of the Hebrew University. PR photo

About 1,600 researchers, scientists and academics sent a protest petition to the Minister of Education and the Prime Minister to cancel the damage to the National Library

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Among the signatories: Israel Prize laureates, scientists from the fields of exact sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences and doctoral students * Earlier, members of the management of the National Academy of Sciences published a petition on the subject
The Hebrew University. Source: Milan.sk / Wikimedia Commons.

A recovery plan was drawn up for the Hebrew University

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Discussion in the Science Committee of the Knesset on the state of higher education in Israel, 2/12/16. Photo: spokeswoman of the committee

Israel has slipped from first place to 30th place in the ranking of scientific publications * Danger of extinction for the study of nuclear physics

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Yishai Frankel Vice President of the New Technologies Group and General Manager of the Software Division

Yishai Frankel, Vice President of Intel: The industry should adopt the Google model to connect with academia and conduct basic research

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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Prof. Yossi Ra'anan, College of Management. Photo: Kobi Kantor

Is higher education in great danger and is it inevitable?

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Experiments on animals. Photo: shutterstock

University research vice presidents call for halting laws that would make animal testing impossible

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The President of the Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruth Arnon, presents the State of Science report to Minister of Science Yaakov Perry and the Chairman of the Knesset's Science Committee, MK Moshe Gafni, October 23, 2013. Photo: Public Relations

The first "Report on the State of Science in Israel 2013" by the Israel National Academy of Sciences was submitted to the Science Committee and the Minister of Science in the Knesset

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brain drain. Illustration: shutterstock

The National Academy of Science recommends that the government immediately increase the academic scientific research budget according to the European rate so that it will be 23% of the R&D budget

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The number of faculty members in Israeli universities 1973-2013. Source: Taub Center

Taub Center: The state of higher education continues to deteriorate - the number of faculty members today is smaller than in 1973

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel. Photo: Kobi Kantor for People and Computers

Only a third of those with a third degree in Israel are employed at universities

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Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the Nobel Prize for deciphering the spatial structure of the ribosome. Photo: Miki Korn, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wikipedia

Noble blue-white

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Prof. Dan Shechtman receives an honorary statuette from Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin. Next to them is MK Ronit Tirosh. PR photo, Israel Sun

The survey of the National R&D Council at the Ministry of Science: 5% of Israeli academics have been abroad for at least three years

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Yale University. From the university website

Brainwashing - escape or brain smuggling? / Yitzhak Farnes

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Military parade in Jerusalem, Independence Day 1968. From Wikipedia

A country haunted by demons XNUMX: The wise and educated want to run away from here and the stupid don't understand why

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The logo of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University

The committee found that the state of teaching and research in ecology, evolution, and biodiversity in the departments of biology and life sciences is in severe deterioration to the point of being in danger of disappearing from the academy

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Prof. Arnon Sofer. Photo: Haifa University

Prof. Arnon writes in a new demographic study: The State of Israel is on its way to becoming a religious state

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Prof. Oded Abramski, chairman of the MOLMOF

The National Council for Research and Development in a serious report: the government is neglecting R&D and letting it deteriorate

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Minister Ben Eliezer on a tour of the Technion

Minister Ben Eliezer at the Technion: Israel has too many lawyers and economists; engineers are needed

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Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar and Chairman of the Technical University Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg at a press conference on the occasion of the announcement of the program for centers of excellence. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Outstanding young scientists from the USA will join the research laboratories in Israel

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Chernobyl followers in Bnei Brak. The state takes care of them and prevents their children from core studies, you can be happy.

Taub Center: The unemployment rate among ultra-Orthodox men has increased by 200% in three decades

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Prof. Oded Abramski, chairman of the MOLMOF

Reactions to the government's plan to return Israeli scientists to Israel - Bar Ilan: We have taken in 30 scientists so far

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Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar and Chairman of the Technical University Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg at a press conference on the occasion of the announcement of the program for centers of excellence. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Today (Sunday) a huge plan for the return of scientists and the upgrading of the universities will be brought to a government decision

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Knesset members and ministers at the higher education lobby conference in the Knesset, 5/1/10. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar: The test for all of us will be in the 2011 budget. The choice must be in education and higher education

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The chief scientist at TMT and the Ministry of Finance published an international tender for the establishment of investment funds in the field of life sciences.

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Academic vision and its opposite

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"If there is one generation in which excellence is not promoted, it is lost and the wisdom of the previous generation is lost"

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Academic education in Israel is deteriorating: not a single Israeli university is among the XNUMX best in the world anymore

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Take advantage of the hi-tech crisis to improve education

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Israel has slipped five places in the international Mitzvah tests in mathematics * Where is the Israeli Obama?

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The average expenditure per student in Israel is lower than the OECD average

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The overcrowding of classrooms in Israel is among the highest in the Western world, but teachers' salaries are half as low in terms of purchasing power

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The "Ofakim" program for training engineers from the periphery was opened at the Technion

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The academic year 12,499 opens at the Technion with XNUMX students

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A letter to the Minister of Finance regarding tuition fees at the academy

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In 2008 - the Technion was ranked 29th in the world in the field of engineering and 31st in the natural sciences

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Shanghai ranking: The Hebrew University in the 100 best in the world

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Israel sharply cut investment in R&D while many countries in the world increased investment

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The State of Israel does not have a growth plan, not even for five years

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"Israeli hi-tech must unite in explaining the immediate danger of not carrying out reforms that will secure its future"

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"The growth engine of Israel's economy is in danger"

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Physics still has a future

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The six lessons for successful research

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Ten Nobel laureates call on the government to save the Israeli academy

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Ten Nobel laureates will participate today in a conference at the Technion on the occasion of the country's 60th anniversary

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Research in Israel is on the brink of collapse - there is a real crisis in experimental research

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The budget cuts will harm the academy's ability to maintain intellectual property for the benefit of the public

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The Israeli government is acting foolishly when it seriously harms higher education

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Israeli scientists are very strong in the field of basic science, and I wish they will continue to do so for many years to come

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