Evolution of the number of teaching staff in public higher education
Description
This dataset describes the evolution of the number of teaching staff in public higher education since 1949-50.
It comes from the collection and synthesis of data provided in statistical publications of the Ministry of National Education (MEN) and/or the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR). Most of these data were collected on the website of the DEPP Statistical Archives, DėPPαDoc: https://archives-statistiques-depp.education.gouv.fr/
### Sources
References to the data source are available in the source column of the file.
TS refers to the publication “Statistical tables” (TS 3950 thus refers to the publication “Statistical Tables n°3950” of January 1971)
Reference is made to the publication “Statistics of Teachings” (SE 73.3 thus refers to the publication "Statistics of the teachings 1973 Chapter 3. Teaching staff")
RERS refers to the publication ‘Statistical References and References’ (RERS 2007 thus refers to the long series on teaching staff in higher education available in Fact Sheet 9.14 of the Repres and Statistical References for 2007”)
Nor refers to the publication "Information Note" (NI 81.38 thus refers to the publication "Information Note n°81-38. Statistical information on higher education staff — 1980-81»
Ni-DGRH refers to the publication “DGRH Information Note” of the MESR (NI DGRH 22-09 thus refers to the publication “DGRH Note — Higher Education — No 9 — October 2022”)
### Interpretation of data
The replenishment of long series requires groupings to propose relatively homogeneous categories, even though the status of teachers has evolved over time and the categories used in statistical publications may also vary.
Thus, for the period before 1984-85, the column on university professors (statut_pu) includes all grade A teachers and therefore includes university professors and former lecturers (who were the equivalent of current 2nd class professors). The lecturers column (statut_ma_mcf) then designates the Assistant Masters, a body created in 1960 and which has disappeared to be integrated into the new corps of lecturers created in 1984.
Medical and ontology assistants have been grouped into the category heads of clinics as is the case from NI 95.40. The assistant_total column therefore includes assistants holding all disciplines (medicine and odontology included)
### Points of attention
There is a serial break for PUs and MCFs starting in 2013-2014, with associate teachers no longer included in the PU and MCF column as was the case before, but counted separately. The columns status_pu_sl and status_mcf_sl make it possible to see the evolution without the break in series over the period 2001-2021, it is taken from the statistical table accompanying the information note DGRH 22-09, of October 2022 of the MESRI. The status_ens_associates_inclusive_mcf_pu column gives, for information, the number of associate teachers included in the number of PUs and MCFs until 2012-2013.
Attention, in the notes of the DGRH from 2019, data on holders are given for school year n, while the data on contract staff relate to school year n-1. Staff were therefore reported to their year of observation and not to their year of publication in the HRB notes.
For the years 2013-14 and 2014-15, the number of contract doctoral students providing an education service is not the same in the annual DGRH note and in the statistical table accompanying DGRH note 5 of May 2022 on contract teachers assigned to higher education
For distribution by discipline, it is possible to refer to the dataset compiled by Célian Godefroid since 1980:
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/evolution-du-nombre-denseignants-chercheurs-a-luniversite-francaise-depuis-1980/
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