The Council on Higher Education yesterday granted Tel Aviv University and Bar Han University the right to award doctoral degrees in several subjects.
Tel Aviv University has been authorized to grant doctorates in applied mathematics, chemistry and biochemistry. Bar Han, which is under religious sponsorship, may grant doctorates in Talmud, philosophy, the Hebrew language, English, Jewish and world history.
Hebrew University has announced that it would open a department of demography–the study of population characteristics and distribution. The department will be staffed by instructors engaged in research in such fields as general theory, the links between population problems and social and economic problems, and special aspects of Israeli, Jewish and Arab demography.
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