Achievements And Challenges In Higher Education System Oа Israeli: Assessments Of Experts

In 2008 a civil, apolitical movement was formed to save the Israeli educational system. After a decade expert and analytical centers keep signaling serious challengesand contradictions directly related to schisms in the society. Worldwide COVID-19 crisis has only made the situation worse. During the pandemic, the number of first-year students in universities and colleges increased sharply, while the country's job market already had had a high percentage of “over-educated” labor. University and college graduates have problems on a job search; there is a drift from Israel of educated and qualified personnel abroad, mainly to the US. Specialists note the low quality of education, a disproportion in the ratio of the number of students and teaching staff, the problem of unequal access to higher education for students from different social stratums and ethnic groups.

In Israel, case analysis in the educational system is carried out by expert and analytical centers, which interact on these issues with corresponding governmental authorities issuing their own annual reports. Sometimes they highlight different points in their assessments. But the fact is that a number of essential problems have not yet been resolved. The Israeli leadership understands that higher education needs to be reformed and adapted to the needs of a country that is located in extremely sensitive region and seeks to be ranked high in a competitive environment in the international arena.

Keywords

higher education in Israel, "startup nation", the Arab sector, Ultra-Orthodox students, "over-educated", "brain drain".

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14.01.2022

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21.06.2022

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GOST	Korochkina V. Achievements And Challenges In Higher Education System Oа Israeli: Assessments Of Experts // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2022. – Issue 5 C. 123-132 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250018244-1-1-en (circulation date: 29.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018244-1
MLA	Korochkina, Victoria "Achievements And Challenges In Higher Education System Oа Israeli: Assessments Of Experts." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 5 (2022):123-132. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018244-1
APA	Korochkina V. (2022). Achievements And Challenges In Higher Education System Oа Israeli: Assessments Of Experts. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (5), pp.123-132 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250018244-1

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