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WORLD TEACHERS DAY: Greece has among best Student-Teacher ratios in Europe

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Stella Mazonakis

Greece has one of the best students-to-teacher ratios in Europe according to the latest data by Eurostat, published on occasion on World Teachers Day, 5 October.

Per the report, the lowest ratio was recorded in Luxembourg (7.1), followed by Greece (8.5) and Malta (8.8) whilst the highest ratios were reported in the Netherlands (16.5 pupils per teacher), France (14.9) and Romania (14.3).

In 2020, there were 5.2 million teachers employed in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in the EU, (ISCED levels 1-3).
The teaching workforce

In terms of age, in 2020, 388 000 teachers were younger than 30 years old in the three education levels (7% of the total teaching workforce) in the EU. Meanwhile, 2.0 million teachers were 50 years old or older (39% of the total teaching workforce).

Almost half of the male teachers over 50 were teaching in upper secondary education (47%). Less than a fifth of male teachers over 50 were teaching in primary education (17%).

For female teachers over 50 the split was more equal: primary education 40%, lower secondary 32% and upper secondary 28%.

Women accounted for the majority of the teaching workforce. In 2020, 73% of teachers employed in primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education were women (3.8 million).
The average number of pupils per teacher was 12.3 in 2020

In the EU in 2020, the average number of pupils per teacher at the primary, secondary and upper secondary levels – the ratio of pupils and students to teachers – was 12.3.

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