Mass resignation signals loss of trust in minister

By Brendan O'Malley. Six members of the Council for Higher Education, or CHE, resigned last Sunday in protest against the dismissal of its deputy chair, Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron, by Education Minister Naftali Bennett, and the appointment in her place of a senior lecturer, Dr Rivka Wadmany Shauman, a move that is strongly opposed by academics. Read more...