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Women represent 86% of teachers in pre-secondary level in Beirut || Newspapers (Arabic)
Al- Nahar newspaper published a summary of the study undertaken by Center for Educational Research and Development, and covering the years 2010-2011. The report is entitled “effective use of human resources in the public educational sector” and provides an overview of the size of the public educational sector which exceeds the supply size although recruitment continues without justification.
The study relies on CERD’s annual statistics and its monitoring of public schools. It indicated that the total number of teachers in basic education in 2010-2011 reached 27691 teachers of whom 22224 teach 207510 students, thus an average of 9 students per teacher!
On the other hand, records for the same period show 10280 secondary level teachers of whom, 8443 teach 68609 students, thus a ratio of 8 students per teacher. These data that CERD supplies on an annual basis do not seem to be duly taken into consideration by decision makers especially since 2800 new teachers were recruited by the beginning of this scholastic year thus added to approximate 11000 contractual teachers for basic and complementary levels!
The study also shows that the gender distribution of teachers does not vary much geographically. The ratio of women teachers is 86.5% for intermediate level teachers in Beirut, and 66.3% in Nabatieh that have the highest number of male teachers. Similarly, gender distribution at the secondary level generally varied little since the ratio of women teachers was 67.3% in Beirut and 44.8% in Bekaa which is the lowest figure.
Source: Al-Nahar 7 February 2013
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