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Academic year sees more students in colleges, fewer in universities
By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Higher education 

The new academic year will see a 5 percent increase in the number of college students and a slight drop in the number of university students, a report published on Saturday reveals.

The Council for Higher Education figures point to a growing trend, whereby students increasingly prefer private colleges to the ailing universities that suffer from an ongoing financial crisis.

Out of a total of 171,000 undergraduate students in Israel in 2008-9, 61 percent go to colleges, as opposed to a mere 6.5 percent in the early 1990s. Equally, there are 3,000 fewer undergraduate students in universities than the all-time record of 78,715 in 2004-5.
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Over the four years since, the academic activity in university has often been disrupted, whether by the Second Lebanon War or different strikes ? led by students as well as senior and junior lecturers.

The sharp budget cuts have led to closure of departments, deterioration of facilities such as libraries and laboratories, and crowding of teaching rooms.

The academic year will open on Sunday in 30 colleges and 27 teachers colleges across the country. The country's seven universities are supposed to follow suit a week later, but the council of university heads have said they will not until their budgetary demands are met
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