The Council for Higher Education is ignoring the state comptroller’s demand that it take responsibility for handling sexual harassment complaints on campus, according to a document obtained by Haaretz.

The document was compiled by the team appointed to respond to the comptroller’s directive.

In his report last May, State Comptroller Joseph Shapira stated that the council should “routinely receive statistics about complaints from the institutions [of higher learning] and examine all regulations set by the institutions and the manner in which they handle sexual harassment complaints.” But the council apparently declined to take on the job.

A survey taken by the National Union of Israeli Students this year showed that 17.9 percent of students reported having been sexually harassed by a lecturer, staff assistant or another student, but only 5 percent complained to the person responsible for receiving such complaints at their institutions.