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Finance Ministry cuts university budgets by $275M
Moran Zelikovich
Published: 23.06.08, 01:24
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1. I'm thinking of coming to study in Jlem next year
Danny ,   Sydney, Australia   (06.23.08)
But I'm not coming if there's a risk of another massive strike. I want to learn, not sit around bored in my dorm because of the government's incompetence.
2. Hey look, someones gonna have to cough up the funds for
Olmert's defence ,   team!! Rueben,Israel   (06.23.08)
3. Does Finance Ministry monitor funds to haredi schools?
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, DC USA   (06.23.08)
If I recall correctly, funding for schools in the haredi system, including the so called "unrecognized" schools was to be contingent on the teaching of "core subjects". But they took the money, and many still refuse to teach "core subjects". Is the Ministry going after that money? I didn't think so. Israeli higher education was, at one time, one of the country's "crown jewels". University and department heads that are stonewalling on needed reforms are just giving the Education and Finance Ministries an excuse to squeeze them. As it is, it'll take years to rebuild the system to what it once was, never mind to what it should be.
4. cutting finances to Israeli universities
I. Barr ,   USA   (06.23.08)
It is sad that university budgets in Israel have been cut. Universities became a hub of anti Israel, anti Jewish subversive institutions. Professors are busy with political activity and their classes became a stage for indocrination of Palestinian propaganda. University professors have to teach. This is the reason for hiring them. With cuts in budgets it is time for universities to clean house.
5. Transformation from most educated and talented people's ...
Daniel ,   Israel   (06.23.08)
country to illetret and labour force peopl's contry within no time.
6. Let me tell you how bad it can get for professors....
Rivkah   (06.23.08)
since it has been a long time since the Great Depression of the 1930's. My grandfather was a Professor of Theology at Mississippi College. With the Great Depression, there were so many funding cuts for colleges and universities that the only option was to work for no salary. No salary. What my grandfather got for continuing to work full time as a Professor at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, was three meals a day, seven days a week for his family at the college AND a free college education for his seven children. There were no other jobs, so he took that and was thankful to be able to feed and school his children. He lost his home which is now the mansion for the President of Mississippi College (the official residence) and has been since the house was taken from my grandparents nearly eighty years ago. Times did not stay bad. My grandmother sold nearly all her jewels to pay for a rental home. As her sons married, they picked a ring from her jewelry collection as an engagement ring they could not afford otherwise from Grandma's jewelry box. My nieces who never married did not understand why I gave each of them a jeweled ring with diamonds, but it seemed like a tribute to Grandma for each of her great-grand daughters to have a ring to sell if they ever needed to.
7. #1 Dont bother would be my advice
Simon ,   TA the free city   (06.23.08)
8. To all foreign students who plan to come here: don't do it.
Student ,   Jerusalem   (06.23.08)
You'll regret it sooner or later. The entire (higher) education system in this country is a drama and there is general disinterest in improving it. For Haredi 'schools' where children don't learn a thing that can help them later in life to earn a living and contribute something to the country, there is plenty of funds. We simply raise ever-growing numbers of people dependent on state handouts. But higher education, which forms the backbone of the state's economy and basically its future, is not something worth investing in here. An extremely sad state of affairs.
9. #1You can come & see #7display his ignorance at the next gay
parade in TA. Yuk ,   yuk!! Shlomo.   (06.23.08)
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