[etni] Empty teaching colleges spell dearth of teachers

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/897215.html

Empty teaching colleges spell dearth of teachers
By Or Kashti
"A large part of the future of Bible studies in state schools rests on my
shoulders," jokes Liat Levy, who began studying last year for a teaching
certificate in Bible and Hebrew grammar at Seminar Levinsky in Tel Aviv. "We
are a disappearing world," she says. The state lacks pedagogy students,
especially in the humanities, but there may be a plus side to this, she
says: "In another few years, teachers will earn more than high-tech workers,
because the Education Ministry will have no choice. There simply won't be
any teachers."

Of Levy's twin predictions, the dwindling teacher pool is the more likely.
Ministry figures on teaching college enrollment for the last school year
present a gloomy forecast. Only six students nationwide enrolled to become
geography teachers, 13 enrolled in Jewish studies, 19 in Hebrew grammar, 35
in Bible, and 44 each in history and Arabic. Nobody enrolled to become a
Talmud teacher. The most popular programs were in mathematics and science.

By contrast, training institutions for religious and ultra-Orthodox schools
are thriving. At 13 state-religious colleges, 635 students enrolled in the
Bible track, and 617 in Talmud. Jewish studies and Hebrew grammar also drew
more future teachers at these institutions. Add to this the non-academic
Haredi colleges, where an average of 1,500 students study Jewish studies and
Bible each year ...

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