the technion as a globally competitive technical university draws highly qualified students from throughout israel and other countries but also has a number of targeted initiatives at the secondary and preacademic level for students in the galilee including arab students see box the tel hai academic college which describes its role as a national college located in the region has developed to a scale and a level of prestige that it now recruits substantially from the centre to the extent that of its undergraduate academic students come from outside the galilee however with the exception of arab colleges the enrolments remain largely jewish