Expensive private master’s programs proliferating at public universities

26.10.2011                      28.Tischrei. 5772

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Expensive private master's programs proliferating at public universities

Proponents claim higher tuition helps fund university activities but some see creation of upper class of students and lecturers.

Study programs funded by non-public sources in Israeli universities have doubled during the past six years, a Haaretz inquiry shows. The number of such programs has risen in six years from 26 to 51. The trend runs at variance with a decision reached in 2007 by Israel's Council for Higher Education to withhold recognition of new study programs.
The number of students enrolled in these privately-funded programs has risen from 1,397 in 2006 to more than 2,350 during the last academic year….