Israel’s Council for Higher Education voted on Tuesday to give Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s department of politics and government, which was threatened with closure after a government subcommittee said that the department had failed to carry out the recommendations of an international quality-assurance group, three weeks to demonstrate that it is making changes to its curriculum. The dispute over the department’s fate led hundreds of academics worldwide to protest the effort to shut it down.
- Source: Jpost
