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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: July 16, 2007 |
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Education Minister Yuli Tamir and Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-on presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with recommendations to improve Israeli higher education according to the Shochat Committee's findings. Among the suggested reforms is a roughly 72 percent tuition increase, the introduction of subsidized bank loans, and an addition $585 million increase in government education budget.
"This is the most comprehensive and thorough reform that was ever proposed to strengthen the higher education system in Israel," Avraham Shochat said, the committee's head and former Finance Minister.
Student groups are threatening to go back on strike to protest the reforms.
Itai Shonstein, chairman of the National Student Union, said on Monday that, "the next school year will not open. We will fight in an unprecedented manner if the Israeli government lies to the student public again."
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