Most teachers are women but tertiary educators tend to be men
Most school teachers are women but the majority of territory-level educators are men, official statistics show. On Tuesday, the National Statistics Office said that the number of educators in Malta has risen slightly in the last academic year. Classroom teachers and academic staff from pre-primary all the way up to tertiary education institutions during the last academic year increased by 0.6 per cent over the preceding year, totalling 9,731. Of these, more than a quarter, 27 per cent, were teachers at the upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary levels, while 21.6 per cent were primary teachers. The largest share of teaching personnel were females, at 66.7 per cent. Full-time teachers accounted for 85.7 per cent of the total. On the other hand, 1,303 tertiary-level educators were men, making up 63.0 per cent. During the academic year under review, 16.3 per cent of all teaching staff were aged between 30 and 34 years, followed by the 40 to 44-year-old age bracket, at 15.4 per cent. Three-quarters of educators work in state-run institutions (74.2 per cent). This was followed by church schools at 15.6 per cent, and 10.3 per cent in private schools. The overall...