* 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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Number of higher education teachers in France 2008-2024
During the 2023-2024 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.
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