Higher education

EU appoints first ever haredi to National Team of Higher Education Reform Experts

HERE operates under the Erasmus+ program, and aims to strengthen the connection between academia and the evolving labor market.

YITZIK CROMBIE, the CEO of Israeli start-up Bizmax, poses on November 21 2018 at the company's offices in Jerusalem, the first of its kind for ultra-Orthodox Jewish men.
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Olim navigate studying in Israel

Healy Hall at Georgetown University with the Qatari flag above it

Qatar’s takeover of Georgetown University should be investigated - opinion

Prof. Shohan Chosen-Hillel in conversation with Maor Zaguri, acclaimed Israeli Director

Meet the scholar behind the science of better decisions


How can Israel boost haredi higher education?

On My Mind: Only 9% of haredi men and 12% of women studied in higher education.

Haredi men walk through Mea Shearim, Jerusalem

Academic leader calls Elkin ‘commissar of higher education’

The decision to fire Neumann was announced on Monday night and followed Elkin’s failure to appoint Ariel University rector Michael Zinigrad to the CHE’s Planning and Budgeting Committee.

Ze'ev Elkin

University entrance exams canceled mid-testing period due to coronavirus

The announcement comes amid new Health Ministry regulations released on Saturday prohibiting exams take place on university campuses across the country.

Students on campus at Tel Aviv University

Higher education exams will be taken online starting Sunday

Starting Sunday, students will be able to take exams online, after it seemed like universities would be ignoring the new coronavirus restrictions and forcing students to come to campus.

Tel Aviv University students relax on the first day of the new academic year, in October 2018.

Israeli college launches ‘world's first’ digital health degree

The new program promises to educate hundreds of undergraduate students in digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, remote medicine and robotics.

Higher Education and Water Resources Minister Ze'ev Elkin (left) and Holon Institute of Technology President Prof. Eduard Yakubov

George Washington University appoints BDS supporter as interim dean

Feldman once participated in an unsuccessful attempt to have the American Anthropological Association (AAA) boycott Israeli academic institutions.

George Washington University

Israel's students protest against Council for Higher Education policy

Many students have gathered in this protest to express their dissatisfaction with the decision maker's choices, feeling that they are the first to have been let off but the last to be rehired.

Israeli students clash with police as they take part in a protest calling for financial aid and equlity in higher education, in Jerusalem May 7, 2020

Israeli universities, colleges to partially reopen this week

While remote learning will continue for students in most higher education institutions, the CHE said groups of up to 15 students will be permitted in some circumstances.

Students from University of Haifa's Innovation Hub hard at work conducting research for their projects.

Haifa U launches innovation hub to remember Holocaust victims

Examples of student projects include a virtual reality experience telling the story of Jewish children in Holland during the Holocaust.

Students from University of Haifa's Innovation Hub hard at work conducting research for their projects.

Tel Aviv U partners with Columbia U to offer joint undergraduate program

Students will spend two years on the Israeli campus, followed by two years in New York and gain two Bachelor's degrees, one from each institution.

Students at Tel Aviv University