Figure 1.--This is a scene at the Department of Architecture, Al-Rashidia College in Jerusalem during 1943. The was the first first colleges offering engineering studies in Palestine. |
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The British focus on education education was focused on primary education. This is not especially surprising. At the time most British children did not go on beyond their primary school. This did not change until after World War II.
The British did not stop with primary school, but of course you can not open secondary schools until you have primary school graduates to begin secondary schools. And finally the British began steps toward university level studies. Again you can not open a university until you have substatial number of graduates from secondary schools. The first secondary schools were boarding schools because there were so few children who had completed primary education. The most prestigious secondary school was the Arab College in Jerusalem. The Arab College opened with the arrival of the British (1918). It was a normal school designed to train the teachers needed to expand the primary system.
For a time its principal was the influential Ahmad Samih Khalidi, father of Walid Khalidi and Tarif Khalidi. It would be closed wuth the end of the Mandate and the First Arab–Israeli War (1948). After only one decade into the Mandate you see the beginning of a tertiary system. The first university-level inctruction began during the mandate. And unlike historic universities in Muslim countries, these developing universities did not focus on religious studies. You see secular curriculums including the sciences. And if that was not revolutionary enough, you see the beginning of what would become a university for young women. We see the Palestine Technical University Kadoorie and the finncing came from a surprising source. It is an agricultural college located in Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank. The college was opned after only one decade of British rule (1930)> The British Government received a bequest from the Iraqi-born Jewish philanthropist Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The college was named in his honour and still bears his name. We note Rashidia College, Jerusalem in operation (1943), but have been unable to find information about the school. We note Birzeit School for Girls founded by Nabiha Nasir (1924). It began as a primary schoo, but by thend of the mandted had evolved into a coeducationl secondary school (1930), a very avat guarde idea in an Arab counrey at the time. It was renamed Birzeit Higher School (1932) and Birzeit College (9142). After the mandate would become a university.
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