Israel faces “a critical need” for more teachers in technical schools, with thousands of such teachers to be in demand in the next 10 years, Salman Aranne, Minister of Education, warned here today. Mr. Aranne made that statement when he delivered the commencement address at Boys Town, where 17 engineering students were graduated by the new College for Technical Teachers.
With Israel’s technical schools showing vast increases in enrollments, while industry clamors for more skilled workers, the country faces urgently the need for more teachers to guide these students and to help fill the void in skilled labor, Mr. Aranne said.
The College for Technical Teachers was opened a year ago, the Ministry of Education cooperating in this venture with Boys Town. The college provides a two-year program which includes lectures on pedagogy, practical shopwork and methods, and Jewish studies. Students use the Boys Town shops and classrooms, and live in the Boys Town dormitories.
J. Leshinsky, director of Boys Town, announced during the graduation exercises that 45 additional students will be admitted to the college next fall. He said the increase in student enrollment has been made possible by the opening of a new building, but declared there is a shortage of dormitories for greater numbers of potential students.
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