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Access to Higher Education: The Israeli Case

Author(s) -

Iris Ben-David,

Yaakov Iram

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international higher education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2372-4501

pISSN - 1084-0613

DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2014.77.5686

Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , equity (law) , stratification (seeds) , higher education , political science , access to higher education , economic growth , demographic economics , development economics , sociology , economics , seed dormancy , botany , germination , dormancy , anthropology , law , biology

Israeli higher education has exhibited a high level of academic achievement. However, access to higher education is at the middle level compared with the OECDs and has presented a middle rate of improvement. Stratification is still evident, especially, for minority students and for students from low socio-economic strata. Equity issues for previous schooling levels nurture stratification in higher education. We argue that there is a need for a holistic equitable school policy reform.

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