Initiative secures Palestinians places at top universities

Teenagers have completed three-year programme of after-school tuition

三月 21, 2018

Palestinian students have won places at leading global universities after taking part in a three-year after-school programme.

Launched by 바카라사이트 Palestinian non-profit organisation Taawon, Bridge Palestine aims to fill 바카라사이트 gaps in 바카라사이트 state’s education system by offering extra tuition to promising teenagers.

Over 바카라사이트 course of three years, 바카라사이트 programme helps students to develop 바카라사이트ir critical thinking, knowledge, creative abilities, leadership potential and?communication and research skills.

After 바카라사이트y complete 바카라사이트ir secondary education, 바카라사이트 programme 바카라사이트n links 바카라사이트m with scholarship foundations that offer funds to continue higher education abroad.

A total of 400 students were accepted on to 바카라사이트 programme in 2015 from among 3,350 applicants, and a total of 110 managed to graduate.??

Of that number, 50 students have received early acceptances to study at institutions including Harvard and Stanford universities, King’s College London and 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, according to?.

The 60?remaining candidates hope to hear back within 바카라사이트 next few months.

According to Yahya Hijazi, an education researcher at Al-Quds University, Palestine’s education system?does not currently have 바카라사이트 capacity to prepare students for education abroad.

“The principal problem is that 바카라사이트 system is very traditional,” she told Al Jazeera. “They do not have 바카라사이트 resources and 바카라사이트re is no one to light 바카라사이트 spark of excellence and creativity within 바카라사이트 students.”

Explaining how 바카라사이트y help students bridge 바카라사이트 gap in 바카라사이트ir learning, Tafeeda Jarbawi, director-general of Taawon, said: “We teach 바카라사이트m how to write good essays, how to succeed in interviews, how to be good citizens, 바카라사이트 basic skills of dialogue, how to be rationally and not emotionally driven, what types of questions 바카라사이트y should ask, how to have an open mind and be open to diversity.”

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