furthermore while higher education institutions expressed concern about the lack of employment opportunities for graduates within the region many did not have robust institutionwide systems in place to monitor the labour market outcomes of their graduates or did not know where they had found employment considerable number of students engages in voluntary work with the exception of the tel hai college this is noncredit bearing and considered outside of the curricula however from the student perspective there are competing demands of community service obligations jobs to pay for college and time needed for academic study