Ministry of Higher Education

In June 1996, the PNA established the Ministry of Higher Education as part of the executive structure, thereby terminating the Ministry of Education’s responsibility over higher education and research, and transferring the mandate of the Council of Higher Education to the new Ministry. In doing this, the PNA also signaled its commitment to the field, both administratively and financially, and raised it to the level of national priority.

 The Ministry of Higher Education is responsible for all issues related to higher education and scientific research in Palestine. It is also responsible for all the institutions, programs and activities of higher education and scientific research.  Its role is to serve and promote a civilized society, encourage refined thinking, creativity and progress in natural, medical, sociological, human and applied sciences, to reinforce the human values and to contribute to human knowledge on the basis of equal opportunity.

The Ministry seeks as well to provide the country with specialists and experts in all fields knowledge, to train individuals with advanced methods of scientific research, and to consolidate human and scientific relations with Arab and international educational and cultural institutions.

 The Ministry participates in building the country and enhancing a free democratic society. Together with the other ministries, the Ministry of Higher Education shares in facing the various challenges of Palestinians in obtaining their right of self- determination and the establishment of a modern civilized Palestinian State with its capital Jerusalem.

The Ministry considers all institutions of higher education and scientific research as centers for highly refined human thinking and for developing Palestinian human resources. The Ministry also encourages individual and collective initiatives within the concepts of responsible citizenship in order to achieve the Palestinian identity in both its Arab and human dimension.

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