Education Minister Yigal Allon hinted today that the government intended to exercise some degree of control over what is taught in Israeli universities. Addressing the opening session of the Hebrew University Board of Governors’ annual meeting, Allon said that State subsidies to universities would, in the future, be appropriated according to “objective criteria.” He explained this meant that the government would take into account the number of students and their distribution among the various foulties when it decided on appropriations. He said the State wanted to make sure that the subjects taught reflected the needs of the State. Allon alluded to recent charges by Hebrew U. president Avraham Harman that Tel Aviv University was luring faculty away frame the Jerusalem campus with offers of higher pay and better working conditions. Allon said the government favored “mobility” of professors but would act against “brain snatching” by means of higher pay offers. The Board of Governors’ finance committee asked approval of a $48,930 million budget for the 1971-72 fiscal year.
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