Higher education teachers in France 2022

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

Characteristic	Number of teachers*
2021-2022	92,040
2020-2021	91,706
2019-2020	90,870
2018-2019	90,722
2016-2017	69,791
2015-2016	69,724
2014-2015	69,954
2013-2014	71,370
2012-2013	69,467
2011-2012	70,319
2010-2011	69,164
2009-2010	74,085
2008-2009	62,141

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Release date

August 2023

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Region

France

Survey time period

2008 to 2022

Special properties

Metropolitan France and overseas

Supplementary notes

* 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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