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The West Bank and Gaza have witnessed an increasing demand for tertiary education, a demand which is expected to grow in the future. Howeveer, studies such as student/teacher ratio, are of serious concern to university administrators and teaching staff . Approximately half of the teaching staff in the university hold the doctoral degree; books/students and journals/teacher ratio are decreasing. Research activity generally appears to be meager across the tertiary system, although there are marked differences between institutions on all of these indices.
In the college(polytechnics and community college), the situation appears to be improving somewhat. There is slight increase of full time faculty members adecrease in the student/teacher ratio and an increase in the books/student ratio. The student/teacher ratio is low, even by developing countries standards. But, just as the university, there is a high variance on all of these indices among different college.
The variance on these indices and fact that very few institutions have institutionalized systemic program evaluation and development procedure, revels a need for monitoring and improving academic quality.
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