Education in the State of Palestine
[dubious – discuss] Enrollment rates amongst Palestinians are relatively high by regional and global standards.
[3] In 2016 Hanan Al Hroub was awarded the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize for her work in teaching children how to cope with violence.
Additionally, there are 19 community colleges (1 Palestinian Authority, 9 public, 2 UNRWA, and 7 private) that mainly offer two-year diploma courses in technical and commercial specializations.
[12] The mission of the MOEHE is 1) to ensure education for all, 2) improve its quality and its standards, and 3) to ultimately develop citizens with sound and balanced characters.
[14] The remaining funding in education comes from donors and international organizations[12] In Palestine, access to schools is primarily constrained by physical conditions and movement restrictions.
However, insufficient investment in upgrading education has led to crowding and deterioration in the learning environment.
According to the 2004/2005 PCBS Educational Institutions Census, there were approximately 898 private kindergartens, and only 3 operated by the Palestinian Authority.
(WB and BCRD 2006) Although most kindergartens are private, the MOEHE provides technical and educational supervision, teacher training and licensing, and some funding.
[18] Certificate of General Secondary Education Examination (Tawjihee) was issued for high school students in grade 12 to prepare them for admission to the universities.
[21](MOEHE 2005a) Gross enrollment ratios for higher education were 46.2% for total, 41.6% for male, and 50.9% for female students in 2007.
have suggested that Palestinian Authority higher education system needs to not only satisfy the increasing demand from the growing population of secondary education graduates, but also to maintain quality and relevance to meet the changing demands of the global economy.
In addition, public financing for tertiary education is considered insufficient given Palestinian Authority financial circumstances.
"[citation needed] "Inter-university co-operation programmes are underway, such as TOKTEN, PEACE and MEDCAMPUS.
The PEACE programme (Palestinian-European Academic Co-operation in Education) involves 23 Palestinian Authority and European universities.
In a second phase, it is to provide for the dispatch of missions of volunteer academics, on sabbatical, from Europe, North America and the rest of the world to the West Bank and Gaza.
"[25] Starting in November 2017, around half of the foreign lecturers in Palestinian universities began to be informed that their residency visas would not be extended because they had been "living in the area for more than five years.
"[26] In addition, their spouses were required to pay tens of thousands of shekels as guarantee that they would not work.
[27] There are five streams in school-based vocational training: industrial, agricultural, commercial, hotel and home economics.
A few community colleges with limited capacity of 200–300 students have high applicant-place ratio (especially for nursing and the UNRWA Gaza Training Centre).
Manual skilled occupations continue to have low status and only the least academically able students are expected to enroll at TVET institutions.
[8] In addition to community colleges, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs provides other TVET opportunities.
Twelve Rehabilitation Centers that target dropouts, slow learners are run by this Ministry.
This allows UNRWA pupils to progress to further education or employment holding locally recognised qualifications and fits with the sovereignty requirements of countries hosting refugees.
Almost all of UNRWA's schools operate on a double shift – where two separate groups of pupils and teachers share the same buildings.
In Jordan and Syria children have full access to government schools and many attend those because they are close to where they live.
In 2022, the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) for using EU funds to create school books containing violent and hateful content.
[30] The committee based its decisions on a 2021 report by IMPACT-SE, which listed troubling references throughout all grades and subjects to anti-Semitic content and imagery, hate speech, and incitement to violence, martyrdom, and jihad.
[30][31] According to the EU-commissioned Georg Eckert Institute, Palestinian textbooks display anti-Semitic narratives and glorify violence.
