Learning and Teaching at Higher Education Level in Palestine: Challenges, Approaches and Achievements

Abstract

The Palestinian educational system has gone through hectic phases characterized by being restricted and governed by occupation starting from the British Mandate up to the Israeli Occupation. However, the Palestinians supported by determination and insistence to build up their state and infrastructure, they first started by developing and upholding the educational system. Thus, they jumped over all the challenges which could have stopped them forever, build up the Palestinian higher educational system, planning the future of education and put up the solid pillars and plans, adopted in new curricula based on research and updated the criteria needed to judge, assess, and fulfill achievements. Therefore, many achievements are now on the ground expanding the number of Palestinian universities, adopting new educational programs and curricula, high scores in IELTS and TOFEL exams, new MA and Ph.D. programs were launched and achieving high ranks in the international university scale of QS.