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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Department of Education and Skills

Third Level Data

Photo of Robert TroyRobert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the staff-pupil ratio of Ireland's universities compares to the European average. [14249/16]

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The data requested is not collected separately for the university sector, however in the 2014/15 academic year, there were just over 18,000 core staff across the higher education system (whole-time equivalents). This figure encompasses some 9,800 academic staff and 8,300 non-academic staff. These figures do not include contract research staff. There were just over 190,000 students (whole-time equivalents) enrolled in 2014/15 giving an average academic staff:student ratio across the higher education system of 1:19.6.

The OECD publication Education at a Glance provides comparative information on staff:student ratios for OECD countries. The 2015 report shows that the OECD and the EU21 average is 1:16. It should be noted that the 2015 OECD Report uses data from 2013 and Ireland's ratio in this report is 1:20.

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