Education Minister Abba Eban suggested today, during Parliamentary discussion of a bill to increase from 19 to 25 the membership of the Council on Higher Education, that the increase was desirable to assure that political forces should not have any control over administration of Israel’s universities.
He said that he did not mean to suggest that political pressures had already been discovered but that he felt that the Council should express itself more forcefully by considering administrative problems of Israel’s universities and not academic standards only.
He added that because members of the Council were frequently abroad, it was difficult to assemble a quorum. He gave that as another reason for the measure which was referred without opposition to the Parliamentary Education Committee.
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