{"id":9334,"date":"2017-10-15T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T09:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/excessive-higher-education-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:19:15","slug":"excessive-higher-education-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/excessive-higher-education-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-Education in Higher Learning in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the 1990s, the Israeli government has expanded higher education by increasing the number of institutions and public funding. This expansion policy was based on the approach that more accessible academic education is key to economic growth and to decreasing disparities between populations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new paper by Ori Katz examines the implications of that policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the English version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Higher-overeducation.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the 1990s, the Israeli government has expanded higher education by increasing the number of institutions and public funding. This expansion policy was based on the approach that more accessible academic education is key to economic growth and to decreasing disparities between populations. A new paper by Ori Katz examines the implications of that policy. 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