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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Teacher to student ratio =/= class size.
Simple example is if a school has 3 teachers to 36 students the PTR is 1:12 but each teacher will still be teaching a class of 36 students for 1/3 of the day...
Our education minister using stats to mislead public...
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PTR is commonly used internationally as a metric. The key message, that there are now more teachers per student in school, remains. Agreed that it is a smaller (and therefore nicer) number to report on, as compared to class size.
I'll just assume the statistic itself is true - wonder where the extra manpower is going, then? Haven't really seen my total number of students, or number of teaching periods, going down in the past 10 years… or maybe my teaching subject is just suay.