Prisoners in Israeli jails can register for university degrees
Headline: "[PLO] Commission of Prisoners: University registration for prisoners has begun at the Gilboa prison"
"Director of the education department in the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs Sayyaf Abu Saif yesterday [Feb. 29, 2016] announced the opening of registration for Al-Quds Open University, which will take place March 1 – 31, 2016. Abu Saif demanded that relatives of the prisoners in the Gilboa prison begin their children's registration, which will take place under the following conditions: A prisoner who is under arrest (i.e., who has not yet received a sentence) cannot register to this program, the prisoner must have a high school diploma recognized by the [PA] Ministry of Education and Higher education in Ramallah, with an average of 85 or higher, a prisoner whose [prison] sentence is more than three years is allowed to register for the program, except for students for the Al-Quds Open University who can join regardless of the length of their [prison] sentence, student prisoners registered at other universities who have completed 30 or more recognized [academic] hours can join the program, and they have priority, regardless of the length of their [prison] sentence, after their [data] has entered a calculation mechanism that takes their situation as prisoners into consideration. The only specializations that can be registered for are social work, the Arab language, Islamic education, and social sciences."
"Director of the education department in the [PLO] Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners' Affairs Sayyaf Abu Saif yesterday [Feb. 29, 2016] announced the opening of registration for Al-Quds Open University, which will take place March 1 – 31, 2016. Abu Saif demanded that relatives of the prisoners in the Gilboa prison begin their children's registration, which will take place under the following conditions: A prisoner who is under arrest (i.e., who has not yet received a sentence) cannot register to this program, the prisoner must have a high school diploma recognized by the [PA] Ministry of Education and Higher education in Ramallah, with an average of 85 or higher, a prisoner whose [prison] sentence is more than three years is allowed to register for the program, except for students for the Al-Quds Open University who can join regardless of the length of their [prison] sentence, student prisoners registered at other universities who have completed 30 or more recognized [academic] hours can join the program, and they have priority, regardless of the length of their [prison] sentence, after their [data] has entered a calculation mechanism that takes their situation as prisoners into consideration. The only specializations that can be registered for are social work, the Arab language, Islamic education, and social sciences."