Haaretz: Higher education reform group to recommend 70% tuition hike
The Shochat Committee’s report on higher education reforms is to recommend that tuition be raised by about 70 percent, to NIS 14,800, and that the higher education budget increase by NIS 2.5 billion over five years, according to senior committee members.
The report is due to be submitted Monday to the cabinet, which must approve the recommendations before they can be implemented.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Education Minister Yuli Tamir said in May, in the wake of a 41-day student strike protesting the recommendations, that they would discuss the committee’s findings with student associations before the cabinet votes on them.
Senior university officials said over the past few days they were happy with the recommendation to increase the higher education budget, but college and university students have warned that they will not stand for a tuition hike.
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