Fostering Academic International Relations in Israeli Colleges to promote Education, Research and Innovation

The aim of the project is to improve the quality and innovation of teaching, learning and research in Israeli second-tier academic institutions, state-funded academic colleges, and thereby to reduce the gap between the two tiers of Israel’s higher education system, by promoting internationalization policies, capacities and culture into Israeli academic colleges.
The development of infrastructures and capacities for international relations at academic colleges will create opportunities for improving academic quality and standards, create access to new funding opportunities and generally increase the competitiveness of the colleges and the employability prospects of their graduates.
Increasing excellence and strengthening the capacities of academic colleges is therefore a strategic goal of Israeli Higher Education Policy, which aims to provide wider approachability to higher education and to direct most of the demand for undergraduate studies to the colleges. Read more...