Do you have feedback or quotes from the students?
How many students receiving this information pursue higher education?
The Advocacy/Information Program for High-School Seniors:
How many students receiving this information pursue higher education?
The Advocacy/Information Program for High-School Seniors:
This program, activated since 2003, targeting Bedouin (boys and girls) 12th-11th graders, educates and informs students about higher education options in the Negev. The aim of the program is to impart information pertaining to the importance of higher education as a tool for personal status change and for social change; to give guidance and counseling regarding registration to institutions of higher education; to close the gap between "desired" and reality; to prevent future dropouts as a result of wrong admission.
Program's components:
- General information: every year the coordinator visits about 800-900 12th-11th grade Bedouin students, explaining about all the academic institutes around the Negev, opportunities, options, and all of the above. This, with the cooperation of the Academic institutes.
- Personal counseling, advocacy and information: students who want to proceed with the learning process turn to the coordinator who helps them with all needed for wise & easy registration.
The Information & Advocacy Program for High School Seniors:
*Since the beginning of the year our coordinator visited 7 Bedouin schools in 6 Bedouin villages. She met about 860 students (boys & girls) in the 12th and 11th grade. Teachers and councils from the schools participated as well.
*The coordinator has also met with the staff in 2 other schools in other villages, in order to prepare the staff and answer questions about high education for their students.
*The students learned information which is not available at their schools, about their opportunities in the academia, how to apply, what is needed to get accepted, what are the employing possibilities of each field of study. The information was given by "a person of their own", contrast to "open days" in colleges or university; she is going through the process her-self. This information designed to close the gap between the "desired" and reality.
*So far, 7 students turned to the coordinator personally, and she is giving them personal counseling and accompanying through the process of registration, matching them the proper field for them (to prevent dropout) etc.
*The coordinator has conducted a workshop for the pre-academic program about: "why do we need higher education", and also explained about opportunities of high education.
*Through this program, more students, schools and parents are exposed to the Association's activities.
