The standards in academia are very high, as repeatedly indicated by international ratings of Israeli universities. This achievement is a consequence of the policies of all governments until the 1990s, when Reagan-inspired policies started infiltrating the Israeli system. The ideology-driven "reforms" started in the Israeli academia about 7-8 years ago have very little in common with reforms implemented in the truly comparable US university systems.
Let us compare the Israeli academia with state US universities, ranked internationally in similar places (IHE-SJTU 2007 international rank in parentheses) with HU (64), TAU (100-150), the Technion (100-150) and the Weizmann Institute (100-150). I chose rather randomly four such US universities: Ohio State Univ. (61), Michigan State (80), Arizona State (96) and U. of Georgia (100-150). |
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