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MK Michael Melchior. (Lior Mizrahi / Jini) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 19:56 07/11/2007 TAU policy chair: Brain drain takes 25% of academics from Israel By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Sderot Conference  Roughly 25 percent of all academics leave Israel, according to Dr. Dan Ben David, director of the public policy department at Tel Aviv University. Ben David put the number at between 1.5 and four percent four European countries. Ben David spoke at the Sderot Conference, which is taking place at Sapir College, on a panel titled "The Brain Drain from Israel." MK Michael Melchior (Labor-Meimad), who chairs the Knesset Education Committee, sat on the panel, and attributed the brain drain to a capitalist worldview, which he said has taken over Israeli thinking. Advertisement "Tuition should be free if we want to strengthen higher education. We should strengthen it among weaker sectors of society and add living stipends," he said. Melchior presented data according to which the achievement gaps in Israel are wider than in several third world countries, like Thailand. Melchior called the secondary school teachers' strike, which entered its 25 day on Wednesday, a symptom, maintaining that young teachers must be listened to. "These are young and excellent people. What conditions to we give teachers at our schools?" He also criticized the high number of students in classrooms, and cuts in teaching hours. He also lamented the fact that "once, the reason to immigrate to Israel was the education system. Today, it's a reason not to immigrate." Nobel Prize laureate Yisrael Aumann, who won in 2005 for his work in economics, allowing each university to determine tuition. Zvi Galil, president of Tel Aviv University, facilitated the panel. Bookmark to del.icio.us Au revoir Assad Sarkozy says he'll cut ties with Syria over the Lebanon presidential crisis. Women march on Women in Black marks its 20th year, but the occupation continues.   1.   So, are`nt you nhappy?! 21:28  |  Almosnino 07/11/07   2.   surprised it`s not higher--they way they`re treated 22:15  |  bob 07/11/07   3.   "Post-Zionist" Israeli academics could move to Sussex 22:34  |  Fortuna Benmayor 07/11/07   4.   REASONS...FOLLOW THE MONEY. 22:46  |  common sense 07/11/07   5.   Brains move where jobs are available... 22:47  |  Inyaki 07/11/07   6.   BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO COME ? 22:47  |  Vladimir P 07/11/07   7.   HAARETZ EDITOR: THIS ARTICLE WAS TRANSLATED POORLY, MANY MISTAKES 23:04  |  M 07/11/07   8.   Universities in Israel 12:16  |  Leo 31/12/07   9.   I believe it is much higher 18:23  |  Israeli academic 31/12/07

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