The University of Toronto announced today that it will accept Hebrew as a foreign language requirement for admission on a par with other modern languages, beginning with the 1968-69 school year. While the university has long offered Hebrew courses in its own curriculum, it is the first university in Canada to give entrance status to that language.
The recognition of Hebrew was made on the recommendation of the university’s Committee on Admission Standards. Credit for the language will be given automatically to students who have passed the final examinations of any of the three Hebrew high schools in Toronto — the Beth Jacob High School for Girls, the Ner Israel Yeshiva College and the Community Hebrew Academy. Students at other Hebrew schools will be judged “on the results of a special examination conducted in a manner acceptable to the Committee on Admission Standards,” the university said. The move by the university was the result of approaches on the subject by the educational department of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
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