OECD (2000)

B7
Ratio of Students to Teaching Staff
Chart B7.2.
Ratio of students to teaching staff for tertiary education
(1997)
Number of students per teacher in full-time equivalents
Tertiary-type B
Tertiary-type A and advanced research programmes
With the exception of
Germany, the ratio of
students to teaching staff
is higher in tertiary-type A
than in tertiary-type B
programmes.
30
25
20
15
Tertiary-type A
and advanced research programmes mean
Tertiary-type B mean
30
25
20
15
10
10
5
5
0
Greece
Ireland
Spain
New Zealand
Austria
United States
Czech Republic
Japan
Germany
Hungary
Australia
Iceland
Sweden
Poland
Belgium (Fl.)
0
Countries are ranked in descending order of number of students per teacher for tertiary-type A and advanced
research programmes.
Source:
OECD.
DEFINITIONS
Data refer to the school
year 1997/98 and are
based on the UOE data
collection on education
statistics, administered
in 1999 (for details see
Annex 3).
This indicator shows the ratio of students to teaching staff and is obtained
by dividing the number of full-time equivalent students at a given level of
education by the number of full-time equivalent “teachers” at that same level
and in the same type of institution. The classification of educational personnel
used is intended to serve as a framework for classifying school personnel for all
levels of education. The classification is based on functions and organises staff
into four main functional categories. The classification is: i) Instructional
Personnel; ii) Professional Support for Students; iii) Management/Quality
Control/Administration; iv) Maintenance and Operations Personnel. Instructional
Personnel is sub-classified in teaching staff, i.e. classroom teacher, and
teacher aides.
Teaching staff at includes professional personnel involved in direct
student instruction. The classification includes: classroom teachers; special
education teachers; and other teachers who work with students as a whole class
in a classroom, in small groups in a resource room, or one-on-one inside or
outside a regular classroom. It includes chairpersons of departments whose
duties include some amount of student instruction. It does not include nonprofessional
personnel who support teachers in providing instruction to
students, like teachers’ aides and other paraprofessional personnel.
Staff reported as “teachers” in early childhood education are generally
similar to those reported in primary education.
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