Palestinian Universities
Make links with Palestinian Universities and Palestinian students.
The number of higher education institutions in Palestine in the academic year 2006/2007 is 46, distributed as follows:
- 12 universities which award Bachelors’, Masters’, and PhD degrees.
- 13 university colleges, offering Bachelor’s degree and 2 years Diploma.
- 21 community college, offering Diploma level.
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Gaza Strip
The West Bank
- Arab American University www.aauj.edu
- Al-Quds Open University
- Al-Quds University www.alquds.edu/
- An-Najah National University www.najah.edu
- Bethlehem Bible College
- Bethlehem University www.bethlehem.edu
- Birzeit University www.birzeit.edu/
- Edward Said National Conservatory of Music http://ncm.birzeit.edu/new/page.php
- Hebron University
- Ibrahimieh College http://www.ibrahimieh.edu/
- Khodori Institute, Tulkarm
- Palestine Polytechnic Institute
Other education and research institutions
- Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem
- Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Palestinian Academic Network
- Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
- Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education
Tough times for University students in Gaza (Click to read)
BRICUP – British Committee for the Universities of Palestine
BRICUP is an organisation of UK based academics, set up in response to the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott. Its twin missions are:
- to support Palestinian universities, staff and students, and
- to oppose the continued illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands with its concomitant breaches of international conventions of human rights, its refusal to accept UN resolutions or rulings of the International Court, and its persistent suppression of Palestinian academic freedom.
What is BRICUP – find out more
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) launched
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) has been launched by students in Gaza.
PSCABI calls upon freedom-loving students all over the world to stand in solidarity with us by boycotting Israeli academic institutions for their complicity in perpetuating Israel’s illegal military occupation and apartheid system. We note the historic action taken by thousands of courageous students of British and American universities in occupying their campuses in a show of solidarity with the brutally oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza. … read the full statement
Free Gaza Movement calls for books for Gaza
In partnership with Al-Aqsa University, the Free Gaza Movement (FG) is launching its “Right to Read” campaign which will use the FG fleet to deliver textbooks and other educational supplies to universities throughout the occupied Gaza Strip.
More details and how to send books
Banning Palestinian Students from Israeli Universities
Now, in addition to proving they’re intellectually worthy of academic study, a would-be Palestinian enrollee will have to prove they are not a security risk AND surmount a whole host of non-security barriers including the following:
• Only PhD and Masters students will be considered and only if there is no practical alternative to studying in Israel
• Preference will be given to applicants to programs focusing on regional cooperation or developing coexistence and regional peace. The Education Ministry must testify as to the nature of the program
• Palestinians will not be allowed to study professions that have the potential to be used against Israel.
• The applicant will have to provide the army with a detailed request from a recognized academic institution explaining the grounds on which the institution wants him to study there
• There will be no further examination if the applicant has a security or criminal record.
• The army will take into account the age of the applicant and his personal status.
• The army, at its own discretion, may refuse to consider an applicant even if the student meets the above criteria.
