15.02.2012                      22.Schwat. 5772

Ariel:

Ariel center moves a step closer to becoming university

Hundreds of academics, including four Israel Prize laureates, petition education minister to nix process.

The Ariel University Center of Samaria now qualifies as a university, according to a report prepared by the Council for Higher Education in Judea and Samaria, Haaretz has learned. But the bid to recognize the center as a university has prompted hundreds of academics to urge Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar to revoke the process.
The CHE-JS report is a key step in the process of turning the Ariel center into a university in July, when the institution's "temporary university status" expires….