Human resources in education

Human resources (teaching staff) play a crucial role in the efficiency of the educational system. No development strategy for education can be successful without competent, skilled, motivated human resources.

The selection of relevant indicators in the subfield of Human resources has been deterred by lack of systematic data on the characteristics of teaching staff as an occupational group (teaching positions filled by skilled teachers, percentage of teachers who commute, number of teachers participating in training; data is equally needed on the average teaching experience, employee retention, or the degree to which digital technologies are used in teaching and evaluation). [read more]

The main indicator selected for this field refers to the net average monthly earnings in education, compared to earnings in other fields. The existing data suggests, firstly, that teachers are not motivated financially, because the net average monthly earnings in education are visibly lower than net average monthly earnings in fields such as Information and Communications, Financial Intermediaries and Insurance or Public Administration. This explains the fact that talented graduates do not wish to become teachers.

To have a clear image of the teaching staff in Romania, we have selected four secondary indicators: percentage of teachers working part-time, by education level, average class size, ratio of pupils to teachers, distribution of teachers by age groups. Our country continues to be among the European countries with the highest pupil-teacher ratio: the average number of pupils per teacher is high at all levels, while the average age differs on education levels (with a balanced distribution on age groups).