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At the crux of the matter, however, are the recent cutbacks in university budgets for research in the social sciences and natural sciences.
Dwindling funds have impelled many of the country’s top academics and researchers to leave in search of better opportunities overseas.
Hence, diverting resources and money into the new college master’s programs threatens to lure enrollments away from the universities, while generally reducing levels of teaching and research. Ha’aretz magazine predicts that the council’s decision regarding additional master’s degree programs will ignite a “higher-education revolution” in Israel in the years to come.
However, the winds of change were evident in this respect with the recent proliferation of smaller colleges established to accommodate Israelis who were denied access to the big universities.
— Ha’aretz Online
The two sister institutions, to be situated in the north and in the Bekaa Valley, will feature programs in tourism and agriculture, respectively. HCHIT plans to feature business administration and office administration during its first year of operation but expects to add a faculty of applied engineering in the second or third year.
Once HCHIT becomes fully operational, it will accommodate more than 1,000 full-time students, including 600 in business administration, 80 in office administration and 600 in applied engineering. Although most of the institute’s students will be Lebanese, applicants will be recruited from other countries, as well. Special emphasis will be placed on promoting HCHIT and its programs throughout the Arab world.
Moreover, the Canadian Bureau of International Education has chosen Capilano College in North Vancouver to preside over setting up HCHIT’s governing structure and will play a key role in developing the curricula in business administration and in office administration. The implementation of these programs will be based on Canadian standards and will utilize Canadian methodologies and technologies.
— Correspondence from the Hariri Foundation
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On April 27, Israel’s Council on Higher Education voted in favor of allowing all academic institutions — not just universities — to offer master’s degree programs. The decision drew much criticism from university leaders who argue that such a move would bring down standards, making it easier for students in Israel to earn such degrees.