Tamir: 'Tragedy' if universities don't start on time
By JPOST.COM STAFF
The Knesset Finance Committee convened Wednesday for an emergency meeting on the latest university crisis, as the 2008-09 semester continued to hang in the balance.
Education Minister Yuli Tamir said it would be a "tragedy if the semester doesn't start on time," since the education system needed "stability."
She claimed that although negotiations had been ongoing since April, "the Finance Ministry is dragging its feet - every time we get close to a decision, the Treasury tries to invent new problems," she said.
On Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Council of University Presidents - a body made up of the leaders of the country's seven universities - told The Jerusalem Post that it remained locked in negotiations with the Knesset Finance Committee over funding for the upcoming year.
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