During the 2021-2022 school year, the French Ministry of Education (Ministère de l'Éducation National) employed over 92,000 higher education teachers. In contrast to this figure, ten years earlier, the body of higher education teachers was just over 69,000.
Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022
* Heads of clinics, assistants and university hospital practitioners, instructors, temporary teaching and research associates and contract doctoral students are not included in higher education. Are taken into account the teachers in IUFM / ESPÉ.
From 2011, the island of Mayotte is included in the data.
The source adds the following information: "Since 2006, no longer counted persons paid on regularization advance accounts (some of the teachers in Greta for example), nor the technicians and workers in charge of local authorities. In 2008, the staff of institutions having acquired their autonomy in higher education were not taken into account. "
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Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. (August 30, 2023). Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 06, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. "Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022." Chart. August 30, 2023. Statista. Accessed October 06, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. (2023). Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 06, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. "Number of Teachers in The Higher Education in France from 2008 to 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 30 Aug 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/ (last visited October 06, 2024)
Number of teachers in the higher education in France from 2008 to 2022 [Graph], Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, August 30, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/780813/number-higher-education-teachers-france/
