PALESTINE: Moves to expand higher education access

Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, has said his government wants to expand access to higher education as it enters the second and final year of its plan to prepare Palestinians for independent statehood, writes Matthew Kalman for the Chronicle of Higher Education.

As part of a sweeping modernisation of the education system, Fayyad pledged $55-million to provide loans and grants for needy higher education students, among others, and promised a new system of tuition reductions for students in medicine, science and technical specialties, along with other financing reforms.
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