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2019-11-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Here's why Israel is set to become a 2020s tech powerhouse

[ZDNET] Though often overshadowed by larger countries, Israel has one of the world's hottest tech scenes. Companies like Waze (an Israeli export acquired by Google) and Mobileye (an autonomous driving company acquired by Intel for a whopping $15.3 billion) have made big headlines, but it's the country's startup culture that's really driving a massive innovation economy, one that's set to shape several technology sectors in the 2020s.

There are many drivers of the industry, but education turns out to be one of the major factors for Israeli's surging technology economy. The country's Council for Higher Education (CHE), the official authority for higher education in Israel, just released data on the segmentation of undergraduate students in the 2018-19 academic year supporting that thesis. For the second consecutive year, engineering studies have the highest enrollment (35,041 students, representing 18.4 percent of the total).

The country has been promoting engineering among prospective students through a number of initiatives, and the results are striking. Over the past ten years, Israel has seen an increase of 80 percent in the number of computer science students.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-12 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top

#1 Meanwhile America has a huge lead in the LGBTHXYZ Studies area.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-11-12 12:41|| 2019-11-12 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 And the Common Core implementation.
Don't forget Obamath.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-12 16:16|| 2019-11-12 16:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, Skid, k-12 math program in Israel is horrible. It produces people who can solve standard exercises but have no understanding of the underlying principles.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-12 16:28|| 2019-11-12 16:28|| Front Page Top

#4 They're still ahead of many US public school graduates, who can't even solve canned problems.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-12 20:28|| 2019-11-12 20:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Silly, ignorant people. Where have they been all this time?
Do they not know that math is manipulated to allow inequality and oppression to persist?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 21:07|| 2019-11-12 21:07|| Front Page Top

#6 That’s because Math is RACIST!!!

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-11-12 21:30|| 2019-11-12 21:30|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ WORD.
Les' put da RHYTHM back in da algo-rhythm.

Posted by Al Go Rhythm 2019-11-12 21:36|| 2019-11-12 21:36|| Front Page Top

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