The table presents information about university-level academic staff in one country. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table presents information about university-level academic staff in one country.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The chart compares the data regarding academic staff belonging to different subjects at a university in a particular country between 2005 and 2013.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the highest number of teachers are involved in
Medicine
and
opposite
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the opposite
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was
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is
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true for Agriculture.
Moreover
, from 2005 to 2013, the amount of staff increased in every subject except for Agriculture and Education. In 2005, there were 30664 members to teach
medicine
for
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to
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students which was the maximum , and the least was for Agriculture, recording just 1680.
In addition
, the greatest positive change in number of staff was
also
recorded by the
Medicine
sector, with a figure of almost 6200.
In contrast
, the highest drop
of
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in
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tutors was recorded in the Education category, with a value of 334. Moving to percentage change, Architecture resulted in the greatest percentage increment, recording 34.62%,
while
only 0.5%
changed
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change
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in the Engineering field.
Next,
in the ratio of teacher to student in 2013, the Arts sector recorded the highest amount of students per teacher
as
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at
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1:12
whereas
least
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the lowest
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ratio of 1:4 in
Medicine
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words medicine with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "change" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "ratio" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • gender distribution
  • academic staff
  • faculties
  • ratios
  • STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
  • dominance
  • balance
  • disparities
  • hiring practices
  • overview
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