In the academic year 2014-15, 56,500 staff carried out administrative, technical or support functions in public higher education institutions, including autonomous institutions.

06 qualification and recruitment of teacher-researchers
Qualification for the position of University Professor or Lecturer is a pre-condition when applying for the competitive recruitment exam to become a teacher-researcher. Once qualification is awarded by the National Universities Council (CNU), it is valid for 4 years. In 2014, the qualification session organised by the Ministry received 21,803 applications, with one person being allowed to submit several requests for qualification under different disciplines (which are in fact submitted to different discipline-related sections of the CNU) or to each of the two teacher-researcher bodies. In 2014, members of the CNU examined 17,362 separate applications in all and approved 11,095 qualifications for 8,290 different individuals, i.e. 62.9% of the 13,180 candidates. More...