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According to Tel Aviv University Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, the former chairman of the Council for Higher Education planning and budgeting committee, Israeli students begin their higher-education studies on average six years later than their peers abroad. One factor behind the increasing age of first-year students in the country is the growing tendency among young Israelis to take a year off before joining the army, in order to enroll in specialized leadership-building programs.
Another factor, as Trajtenberg notes, is the growing number of young Israelis taking advantage of new opportunities to sign up for extra time in the army, once they have completed their required service, in exchange for salary. Add to that the expanding university applicant pool, which has come to include many weaker students who might not have considered higher education in the past and need extra time to catch up with their peers.
Almost one out of every two Israelis enrolls in university or college today, compared with barely more than 20 percent a few decades ago. But because it is not a level playing ground any longer, as Trajtenberg notes, many of these prospective students need time to close gaps.
It is also very common to take off up to a year nowadays to prepare for university entrance exams, he says. Starting undergraduate studies at a relatively advanced age has both pros and cons, says Trajtenberg. On the one hand, he says, Israeli students tend to be more mature and serious than their peers abroad.
Eyal Feder believes he has a certain disadvantage being an older student, but for different reasons. He is majoring in computer science and urban planning. An officer in the elite IDF intelligence unit , Feder spent five years in the military before backpacking his way through Central America on what has become an almost obligatory post-army rite for many Israelis.
Upon his return, he served for two years as executive director of a community arts and cultural center for asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv, and it was during his second year running the non-profit that he began his university studies.
There is no empirical evidence to prove that Israeli students benefit by beginning their studies later, according to Ami Volansky, a professor of higher education at Tel Aviv University who serves as chief scientist at the Ministry of Education. Real experience also typically comes with age or maturity. By the time they get to college, their heads are in a different place than those of their American counterparts. Bob Rosenschein, the American-Israeli startup entrepreneur who founded Answers.
Assuming it takes them the usual three years to compete their course requirements, it means they are just starting at age 22 — four years after finishing high school.
Neither has to wait four years to start a higher education, but it seems to be regarded in Israel at a growing-up period — in fact the minimum period young people need to mature, because it appears that the majority of the population allows themselves even longer.
Again, assuming they take three years to complete the coursework, that means they begin at an average age of Mandatory army service keeps them in uniform normally until age 20, which means they delay by an average of more than four years the start of their higher education. Secular male Israelis take even longer, graduating with a BA at age Malach sees that gap as the price of army service paid by secular youth.
Instead of getting their BAs at age 25, secular Israeli men are nearly 29 when they graduate. It comes not only at great personal cost but at a cost to the Israeli economy , Malach says. His conclusion is that Israel needs to shorten the length of army service. It was recently reduced to 32 months from 36 and there are plans to cut it further. And, he says, those who serve need to be compensated for their lost years of income. It seems the desire to enter full adulthood slowly outweighs the resulting lost years of income.
By the way, there are all kinds of implications to delaying higher education.
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