A record total of 9,200 students will enroll at Hebrew University for the new session beginning Sunday, representing a 12 per cent increase over the number attending last year, it was reported here today. Some 550 research students will be among the young men and women attending the main campus in Jerusalem and the University’s branches in Tel Aviv and Rehovot.
The number of foreign students this year will increase to 600 from 450 last year, including 100 from Asia and Africa, most of them in the medical school.
University president Eliahu Elath noted today that the School of Education now produces some 300 teachers annually or about 95 per cent of all the newly qualified teachers in Israel. These, however, were only half of the number required. He said that about 70 per cent of the secondary school teachers were now without academic qualifications.
Professor Yoel Racah, University rector, reported that overseas research contracts, mainly from U. S. Government agencies, would rise this year to about 5,000,000 pounds ($1,667,000). He stressed that the continued rise in enrollment would inevitably create a shortage of buildings and instructors.
Referring to limitations in enrollments in the sciences, Academic secretary E. Poznanski said that only 60 of the 300 who applied to medical school were accepted and that a similar situation prevailed in the other science faculties.
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