Free Online English Course Means Layoffs at Israeli College

Ashkelon Academic College says it’s keeping more English teachers than its rivals, but the lecturers lament the online course promoted by Education Minister Naftali Bennett.

May 23, 2016 4:18 AM

Almost all the English lecturers at Ashkelon Academic College have been summoned to pre-dismissal or hour-reduction hearings because the school is pushing a free online course, the college’s faculty...

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