Abstract
Despite great obstacles over its relatively short threedecade history, Palestinian higher education has helped to meet the rising demand for further education, providing access in West Bank/Gaza to those who had been forcibly deprived of the chance to study abroad. But longstanding demographic and fiscal pressures, coupled with inadequately defined priorities and chronic economic and political problems only heightened by the recent turbulence, have led to a higher education system in fundamental need of repair. In recognition of these facts, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has decided to develop a financing strategy for the purpose of creating a more effective, accessible, efficient, and accountable higher education system.
Highlights
Policy address as chief executive of the new Special Administration Region government in October 1997, Tung Chee Hwa made the commitment to a future where all new teachers entering the profession should be university graduates with professional training and asked the University Grants Committee to advise on the timetable for this transition
There is considerable debate over the most appropriate model for teacher education at different levels, with the universities largely focusing on postgraduate diploma programs for university graduates in various subject disciplines
While the Institute has developed postgraduate diploma programs for university graduates interested in either primary or secondary teaching careers, it has taken the position that the integrated bachelor of education program provides a more solid professional preparation for a teaching career, especially in the light of trends toward more integrated curricular knowledge and the encouragement of habits of self-learning in all children
Summary
The Institute faces a formidable challenge as several universities with well-established faculties of education seek to expand their enrollments in teacher education and all tertiary institutions are asked to do more without any increase in government funding.
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