An Impressive Achievement for the “Gateway to Academia” Program for Integration of Bedouin Students from the Negev Into Higher Education 385 students were enrolled in the 2018/19 academic year, in the first year of the “Gateway to Academia” program that was expanded to southern institutions of higher education, after 3 years of a successful pilot…

The multiyear plan set a goal to increase the number of students of Ethiopian extraction enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs such that the percentage of Ethiopian students will be approximately 1.7% by the end of the multiyear plan in 2021/22, commensurate with their percentage of the population. The multiyear plan set a goal to increase…

Within 6 years, the number of Ethiopian students (bachelor’s degrees) grew by 45%.   2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 Total number of Ethiopian students 2.937 3.287 3.591 3.800 3.996 4.092 4.316 Bachelor’s Degree 2.608 2.903 3.194 3.377 3.567 3.604 3.782   The multiannual program defined an objective in terms of the increase in...

2018/19 Data: Approximately 50,000 students are enrolled in digital academic courses. Approximately 10,000 students have successfully completed these courses. Approximately 25% of the students who finished these courses are above the age of 40 (14.7%) or under the age of 20 (8.7%). By way of comparison, in “ordinary” academic education, only 5% of students are…