APPENDIX A: CALCULATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEACHING HOURSTable 23: Calculation of the Distribution of Teaching Hours 1999-2000 [update]
Sources: CBS, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2000, no. 51, tables 22.10, 22.27; Yosef Gidanian, Central Bureau of Statistics, e-mails to Human Rights Watch, June 18, 2001 and July 31, 2001; and Ministry of Education, Proposed Budget for the Ministry of Education 2001 and Explanations as Presented to the Fifteenth Knesset, no. 11, October 2000, p. 144. 104 A full-time equivalent is the "number of hours constituting a full teaching post." CBS, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2000, p. (104). This data is consistent with that presented in Ministry of Education, Proposed Budget for the Ministry of Education 2000, pp. 157, 168, 179. 105 In kindergarten and primary education, thirty hours per week constituted a full teaching post; in intermediate and secondary education, a full teaching post was twenty-four hours per week. CBS, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2000, p. (104); Yosef Gidanian, Central Bureau of Statistics, e-mail to Human Rights Watch, July 31, 2001. |