There are eight universities and several dozen colleges in Israel, which are recognized and academically supervised by the Council for Higher Education in Israel. The primary difference between a university and a college in Israel is that only a university can confer doctorate degrees, and therefore it tends to be more research-oriented than the more teaching-oriented colleges. The following is a list of Israel's eight Universities: Bar Ilan University Bar Ilan University is located in Ramat Gan. It has a […]
The National Union of Israeli students (NUIS) is the largest and sole organization representing over 300,000 students in 64 to higher education institutes and vocational schools. The Student Union's activity is widespread and includes a variety of activities portraying its worldview regarding the students' role, responsibilities and benefits within the Israeli society. The Union is comprised of professional departments enacting the decisions made for and with the student community in addition to local student unions in each of the higher […]
In December 1902, the first Nobel Prize was awarded in Stockholm to Wilhelm Roentgen, the discoverer of X-rays. Alfred Nobel (1833-96), a Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, had bequeathed a $9 million endowment to fund significant cash prizes ($40,000 in 1901, about $1 million today) to those individuals who had made the most important contributions in five domains (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace); the sixth, in “Economic Sciences,” was added in 1969. Nobel could hardly have […]
In 2012, Israel was named the second most educated country in the world according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Education at a Glance report, released in 2012. The report found that 78% of the money invested in education is from public funds and 45% of the population has a university or college diploma. Israeli schools are divided into four tracks: 1. State (Mamlachti) 2. State-religious (Mamlachti dati) 3. Independent (Haredi) schools (Chinuch Atzmai) 4. Arab schools There […]