British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 657

CHAPTER XVI.

There were also in 1943/44 15 secondary schools outside the Va'ad Leumi system with 1,358 pupils in secondary classes.

(d) TECHNICAL AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

84. There are a number of Jewish Technical and Agricultural schools, mostly maintained by public or charitable bodies, but not controlled or assisted by the Va'ud Leumi. Students are normally admitted on completion of an 8-year elementary school to a 3-year course of vocational training; in some schools the course is of 4 years, in others 2 years only. As a rule there are separate schools for boys and girls. The technical schools for boys give training in metal trades, carpentry, building and seafaring; for girls-domestic science, sewing and weaving, and commerce. There is also a mixed school in Jerusalem for Arts and Crafts. The agricultural schools are all residential; the technical schools with one exception, non-residential.

The total number of schools and pupils in 1943/44 was as follows:-

Schools Pupils

Technical schools Agricultural schools

Total

16 17

33

1,778 2,019

8,792

For Higher Education, there is a Technical Institute in Haifa comprising Faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Architecture, with 292 students; and there is an Agricultural College in Rehovoth, attached to the Hebrew University.

(e) TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

85. Teachers are trained at the Hebrew University. See paragraph 95.

There are also 5 training colleges, of -which 2 are "General", 2 "Mizrahi", and 1 "Labour". Three of these admit from elementary schools to a 5-year or 6-year course, in which secondary school subjects are studied concurrently with professional training, though the latter is indeed concentrated mainly in the last two years. The other 2 colleges admit students from secondary schools to a 2-year course, devoted mainly to professional training. The General and Labour colleges are co-educational; the Mizrahi have separate colleges for men and women. All except the Labour college are non-residential.

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