{"id":9146,"date":"2011-04-17T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/seeking-education-for-our-joint-future-together\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T14:16:00","slug":"seeking-education-for-our-joint-future-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerusaleminstitute.org.il\/en\/blog\/seeking-education-for-our-joint-future-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking education for our joint future together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michal Korach<\/st1:personname><\/div>\n
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On the individual level, educational background, and particularly higher education, is positively correlated to a person\u2019s income level and quality of life.  <\/span>On a national level, it corresponds to the country\u2019s level of socio-economic development on a whole.  <\/span>Higher education is the \u201cblack gold\u201d of the global age, and it importance is all the more pronounced in Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, where the main resource is human capital.   <\/span><\/div>\n
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Newly-released data from the census performed in December 2008 by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics make it possible to classify Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s neighborhoods by levels of education.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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This data reveals that the break-up of educational background (by highest degree earned) among Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s population is similar to the national average.  <\/span>Thirty six percent of Jerusalem\u2019s residents aged 15 and above had completed high school (58% of which had completed their matriculation exam requirements), as compared with a national high-school graduation rate of 40%, of which 57% had also completed their matriculation exam requirements.  <\/span>Eleven percent of Jerusalem<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019s population has non-academic post-high school education (compared with a national rate of 12%) and 22% held baccalaureate or post-baccalaureate degrees (compared with a national rate of 23%).  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Significantly enough, Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has an extremely high percentage of men who studied in a yeshivah <\/i>\u2013 27% compared with a national rate of 7%.  <\/span>Of Israeli cities with 100,000 residents or more, only Bnei Brak had a higher percentage of males who had studied in yeshivah <\/i>\u2013 67%.  <\/span><\/div>\n
The highest percentage of university graduates with a baccalaureate degree or higher was found in the neighborhoods of Rasqo, Giva\u2019at Mordechai, German Colony, Old Katamon, Rehavia, French Hill, Abu-Tur, Baqa\u2019a and Yamin Moshe.  <\/span>The lowest percentages of university graduates, which varied between 2% and 10%, were found in the Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods of Geula, Mea Shearm, Sanhedriya, Tel Arza, Romema, Makor Baruch and Ramat Shlomo.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Jerusalem<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019s Ultra-Orthodox population is, by no account, homogenous with regard to education.  <\/span>Some heavily Ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods boast a relatively high proportion of university educated residents, such as Har Nof (28%) and Givaat Shaul (20%).  <\/span><\/div>\n
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For many years, it was rather uncommon for Jerusalem<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s Ultra-Orthodox populations (mainly the male population) to seek higher education, and particularly in academic channels, presumably because the men dedicated themselves to their religious studies.  <\/span>Over the past years, this trend has been reversed, following increased awareness of the need to incorporate the Ultra-Orthodox population in the workforce.  <\/span>One of the means for achieving this goal has been to increase access to and participation in higher education.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Michal Korach On the individual level, educational background, and particularly higher education, is positively correlated to a person\u2019s income level and quality of life.  On a national level, it corresponds to the country\u2019s level of socio-economic development on a whole.  Higher education is the \u201cblack gold\u201d of the global age, and it importance is all…<\/p>\n

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