{"id":9144,"date":"2011-05-15T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/studious-jerusalemites\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T07:33:00","slug":"studious-jerusalemites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/blog\/studious-jerusalemites\/","title":{"rendered":"Studious Jerusalemites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jerusalem<\/st1:placename> Municipality<\/st1:placetype> is investing significant resources in its effort to brand Jerusalem<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> as a national center of higher education and to draw students from every part of the country.  <\/span>Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> already boasts a large concentration of higher education institutions of every stripe \u2013 academic, rabbinic and post-secondary.  <\/span>Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s centrality in the field is evident from the large percentage of students enrolled in its institutions of higher learning; a percentage which greatly exceeds that found in other Israeli cities.  <\/span>In 2009, 76,000 Jerusalemites over the age of 20 were enrolled in the city\u2019s educational institutions.  <\/span>As a percentage, this cohort accounted for 17% of its age group in Jerusalem<\/st1:city> as compared with 11% in Tel-Aviv and in Haifa<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and a national average of 10%.  <\/span>Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also houses many rabbinic academies for men known as yeshivot gedolot<\/i>.  <\/span>The presence of these institutions also serves to explain the disproportionate male to female ratio in Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s adult higher education: 63% to 37% respectively.  <\/span>In other major cities, the male to female ratio is almost balanced: 49% to 51% in Tel-Aviv, and 47% to 53% in Haifa<\/st1:city> and in Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> as a whole.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Higher education institutions in Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> mostly fall into three categories: institutions that award academic degrees, institutions that award post-secondary certification and rabbinical yeshivot gedolot.  <\/span><\/i>In 2009, 49% of adult students in Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> were studying toward an academic degree.  <\/span>Their number was 37,000, and 56% of them were female.  <\/span>Another 25,000 students, which accounted for 33% of Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s adult student population, studied in yeshivot gedolot<\/i>.  <\/span>They were all male, without exception.   <\/span>   <\/span>Another 6,000 students, the equivalent of 8% of Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s adult student population of which 63% were female, were enrolled in other post-secondary certification programs.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Of the adult student population, the percentage of students enrolled in academic institutions was lower in Jerusalem than in Israel: 49% compared with 63%.  <\/span>The proportion of students enrolled in post-secondary certification programs was also relatively low: 8% compared with 13% nationwide. On the other hand, the proportion of students enrolled at rabbinic male seminaries was conspicuously higher with 33% compared with 13%.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Eitan Bluer The Jerusalem Municipality is investing significant resources in its effort to brand Jerusalem as a national center of higher education and to draw students from every part of the country.  Jerusalem already boasts a large concentration of higher education institutions of every stripe \u2013 academic, rabbinic and post-secondary.  Jerusalem\u2019s centrality in the field…<\/p>\n

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