Beit Berl
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Beit Berl (Hebrew בֵּית בֶּרְל, German: House Berl ) is an academic college in Israel. The campus is located in Kfar Saba and has the status of a municipality in the Regional Association Drom HaScharon.
History
Beit Berl was founded as a place on 21 August 1946 and is named after the Histadrut and Avoda leader Berl Katznelson. First, it was a military base of the Haganah and the Israel Defense Forces. Since the late 1940s, also teachers, kibbutz members and youth leaders were trained on the site.
1979 Beit Berl received the national accreditation of its courses and 1981 academic recognition as a College of Education under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Successive one united under the umbrella of Beit Berl various educational institutions in the region. In 1987 it received for all courses to be recognized as university.
Structure, order and staff
Beit Berl today comprises four faculties:
- Education
- Art
- Management and Sozialweswen
- Academic Institute for Training Arab Teachers.
About 1,000 full-time and part-time faculty do research and teach about 10,000 students. In addition to bachelor's degrees for teachers at all school types can master's degrees, inter alia, acquire in art education, special education and educational management. Beit Berl sees itself as multikilturelle higher education institution and tries to empower its graduates particularly for a peaceful coexistence of the existing cultures in Israel.
University partnerships
- Pedagogical University Krakow
- Ludwigsburg University of Education
- Jan Evangelista Purkyně University Ústí nad Labem
- University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
- Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales
- The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration ( Romania)
- University of Mondragón ( Basque Country )
Within the framework of the twinning of Kfar Saba and Wiesbaden also an exchange program with the Department of Social Work of the University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, under which many students already vintages is a semester at the partner university graduated hub. Housed German students are in Kibbutz Nir Eliyahu.