Taub Center study shows deterioration in Israel’s higher education

By Danielle Ziri. While the size of the academic faculty has declined over the past three and a half decades, the number of students rose by 428%.
The state of Israel’s higher education has steadily deteriorated over the past decades, according to a new study released by the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel on Monday, ahead of the beginning of the academic year next week.
The study, which is part of the Taub Center’s forthcoming “State of the Nation Report 2013,” was conducted by Prof. Dan Ben-David as an update of his previous research on the subject in 2008, and revealed that Israel’s top universities have fewer senior faculty positions today than they did four decades ago. More...