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Human Resources
BUSINESS REPORT
HUMAN RESOURCES
The College has significant business operations. This section of the report provides an overview of Human Resources, Admissions, Finance and the UWCSEA Foundation for the 2019/2020 school year.
UWCSEA’s ambition is to be a leader in international education, with a worldwide reputation for providing a challenging, holistic, values-based education. The recruitment and retention of excellent teachers, and administration and operational teams who can support the mission of the College remains central to this vision.
STAFFING
518
Administrative and Support staff at the College
Educational support staff 26.2% Admin/support staff 17.6% Boarding support 1.8% Foundation 0.9% Management 0.7%
1,084
UWCSEA staff
566
Teaching staff at the College
45.3% full-time teachers 7.5% part-time teachers
Student teacher ratio across College
10.28 students 1 teacher
Individual training applications processed
1,001
Educational support, administration and operations staff
491 Total unique participants in external training courses
169 Academic staff
322
In support of the UWCSEA strategy, the College’s focus on professional learning and development was consolidated in the 2019/2020 year, resulting in 91% of staff in each department participating in paid-for professional learning activities organised by the professional Learning and Development team. Those staff whose planned professional learning was most impacted by the need to focus on providing support for COVID-19 operational adjustments—including members of the facilities and IT teams— will have a specific focus from the professional learning team in the 2020/2021 school year.
These training opportunities were in addition to the on-site training offered by Professional Learning and Development and the professional development focus on the timetable days which are set aside each year for academic staff to engage in professional learning linked with the strategic plan for each campus. These courses included soft skills (communication, critical thinking, creativity, team building), First Aid, IT, Health, Safety and Compliance, Leadership, Further Education and other job specialist courses.
STAFF RECRUITMENT
215 Posts advertised for teaching, administrative and support staff positions 6,484 Applications received 30 Average number of applications per vacancy
In the 2019/2020 school year, the area of teacher recruitment continued a strategic shift to broaden the awareness of UWCSEA across a greater number of potential teacher recruitment sources and create greater awareness of UWCSEA as an employer of choice. The Learning Leadership Team and the Human Resources talent acquisition team partnered to identify a number of new mid-to-long term recruitment activities designed to raise awareness of the College and to nurture a talent acquisition pipeline, including attending teacher recruitment fairs in Singapore and Bangkok, sourcing new recruitment partners and identifying a wider range of opportunities to advertise teaching positions across a number of additional online channels.
