A proposal for the creation of a Government supervisory body for planning, directing and coordinating higher education in Israel was laid before the Cabinet yesterday by Zalman Aranne, Minister of Education and Culture. Such an organ, he assured the Cabinet, would in no way prejudice the present autonomy of the institutions of higher learning.
Mr. Aranne reported that, in the last five years, enrollment in Israel’s institutions of higher learning has increased by 80 percent, reaching a total of 20,000 students. In the next half decade, he said, the student enrollment is expected to double, necessitating the addition of 1,250 more faculty members.
The Hebrew University here will hold commencement exercises this week, and will confer degrees on nearly 1,000 students. Of that total, 350 of the degrees will be for studies in the humanities, 135 in the social sciences, the remainder in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and agriculture.
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