Overall, 64 767 FTE are available to higher education institutions. With around 46 000 FTE, more than two-thirds of personnel resources are deployed in the UNI (71%). UAS personnel accounts for approximately 15 000 FTE (23% of the total) and UTE personnel for 3714 FTE or 6% of personnel resources in higher education.
The deployment of personnel resources varies widely between the different types of higher education institution. In this analysis, the types of activity “administration” and “central services” have been excluded at the UAS and UTE for reasons of comparability between the three types of higher education institutions. Whereas the UTE and UAS devote slightly less than 60% of personnel resources to teaching in basic tertiary education, this percentage is 24% at the UNI. Instead, at the UNI more than half of personnel resources are devoted to research and development (57%), whereas (applied) research and development at the UAS and UTE accounts for 34% and 18% of FTE respectively. The amount of research activity at the UNI is related to the relatively high percentage of mid-level staff at the UNI (see chapter 5).
Only the UNI offer advanced educational courses (doctorate) to which they devote 8% of their resources. Continuing education courses (e.g. Master of Advanced Studies) are available at all types of higher education institution: these courses account for 12% of resources at the UTE, 7% at the UAS and 3% at the UNI. Services, such as scientific analyses for the public or private sector, account for 3%, 8% and 10% of resources at the UAS, UNI and UTE respectively.
Further information on the resources used in the higher education system can be found in the pocket publication “Statistics of higher education institutions: 2019” (FSO, 2021).