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HUNGARY. Number of university teachers in relation to their research time and supporting
staff (1966)
Philosophy
Economics
History
Law and political
science
Pedagogy
Languages and
letters
Geography
Arts
Others
Total
Natural (physical and
biological)
Medical
Agricultural
Technological
Total
No. of Research Supporting Auxiliaries
university worker research per IOO
teachers equivalents staff research workers
397
64
83
20
1,584
1,571
1,947
574
1,270
6,946
~~
50
47
24
32
29
96
I2
15
4
309
390
456
128
245
1,528
I
IO
3
2
IO
16
-
I3
3
58
231
90
I 28
94
601
2
5
-
2
5
3
19
2
-
4
57
32
80
47
39
SOURCE: ‘A magyar tudomanyos kutatis helyzete az orszagos kutatisi statisztika 1966.
6vi adatai tukrkben,’ Tudomdnyszervez6si Tdj6koztatd 8 (I), January, 1968, p. 32.
The research time in the social sciences and humanities available in the universities
is equivalent to less than half the number of research workers in the institutes.
Auxiliaries are almost non-existent. Even in the institutes the number of
auxiliaries and other employees is small compared with those available to the
other scientific groupings. Economists are concentrated in the institutes and
constitute the only research force of any magnitude in the social sciences. The
largest group in the humanities (languages and letters) is equally divided
between the universities and the institutes. The overall teaching strength of the
social sciences and humanities is comparable to that of the other scientific
groupings. Research is concentrated in the institutes except in medicine.
29. A special report gave results of a survey of social science manpower in
Poland in 1965.7~ Some 140,000 adults were estimated as in employment whose
tertiary education had been based on the humanities or social sciences. The
courses of studies of 50% of these had been predominantly in economics. A
large number of them were now engaged in various kinds of applied research
or ‘service d’etudes’ in the ‘technico-scientific hinterland’ of industry and government.
They worked in 1,346 different institutions and 6,895 organizational units.
The following table gives an overall picture of ‘hinterland’ workers in 1965. The
‘engineer-technicians’ are non-graduates. The ‘other workers in the basic activities’
are apparently graduates with a bachelor’s degree* or equivalent diploma.
* Bachelor’s degrees have since been discontinued.