Occasional employees at higher education institutions and vocational colleges, academic year 2021/2022

Most pedagogical occasional work at the tertiary level performed at higher education institutions 
In the 2021/22 academic year, 5,242 occasional employees performed pedagogical work at higher education institutions and 1,061 at vocational colleges. Of the 6,303 occasional employees (52.5% of them men and 47.5% women), 42.8% were full- or part-time employed at these institutions.

The number of pedagogical occasional employees is steadily increasing

In the 2021/22 academic year, the total number of pedagogical occasional employees at higher education institutions / vocational colleges increased by 6.4% over the previous academic year and by 18.8% compared to the 2019/20 academic year.

More occasional employees without having full- or part-time employment at higher education institutions / vocational colleges 

In the 2021/22 academic year, we recorded 3,607 occasional pedagogical workers who were teaching without having full- or part-time employment at higher education institutions / vocational colleges, which is 3.1% more than in the previous academic year and 17.7% more than in the 2019/20 academic year.
 
Three quarters of individuals (48.3% of them men and 51.7% women) were also employed at higher education institutions and a quarter at vocational colleges (59.7% of them men and 40.3% women).

The number of occasional employees having full- or part-time employment in higher education institutions increased more than the number of occasional employees in general

In the 2021/22 academic year, 2,479 occasional employees were full- or part-time employed at the same higher education institutions, which is 12.3% more than in the previous academic year and 21.9% more than in the 2019/20 academic year.

The number of occasional employees who were full- or part-time employed at vocational colleges remained the same (217 individuals), with the change in the gender structure (there were 15 more women).

In the 2021/22 academic year, almost two thirds of occasional employees at higher education institutions and a quarter at vocational colleges had 3rd cycle higher education 

In the 2021/21 academic year, 60.0% of occasional employees at higher education institutions had 3rd cycle of higher education and 40.0% had 2nd cycle of higher education.

In the same academic year, 25.4% of occasional employees at vocational colleges had 1st cycle of higher education, 47.5% had 2nd cycle of higher education and 27.1% 3rd cycle of higher education.
 




At vocational colleges 7 percentage points more pension recipients than in higher education institutions

Among those who were not employed full- or part-time at higher education institutions, the largest share was employed elsewhere (78.5%), almost one in five had the status of a pension recipient (17.5%), 3.4% were inactive on the labour market, 67.0% of them women, while 18 students had part-time teaching jobs at this level of education.

Most occasional pedagogical workers who were teaching at vocational colleges without having full- or part-time employment at vocational colleges were employed elsewhere (66.0%), one in four was retired (24.5%), 65 individuals were inactive on the labour market, of whom there were more women (58.5%) than men (41.5%), while 15 students also did part-time work at this level of education.

Tables with the latest data are available in the SiStat Database.