Faculty:
Faculty is the academic staff of a university: senior teachers, lecturers or researchers. This term is mostly used in United States and Canada. Their responsibility is to impart the knowledge to the students. They may have different academic ranks from teachers to professors to doctors. They may have irregular working hours but better salaries.
Staff:
Staffs are all the people employed by a particular organization. Their responsibility is to carry out the administrative activities. It is the group of people with diverse educational backgrounds that works as a clerk, maintenance and security crew and other functions. They have regular working hours but fewer salaries in comparison to the faculty members.
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| Basis | Faculty | Staff |
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| Definition (www.oxforddictionaries.com) | A group of university departments concerned with a major division of knowledge | All the people employed by a particular organization |
| Synonyms | Skill, flair, strength, aptness, bent, potential | Personnel, organization, court, crew, pole, rod |
| Responsibility | Their responsibility is to impart knowledge. | Their responsibility is to carry out the administrative functions. |
| Working hours | They may have irregular working hours. | They have regular working hours. |
| Salary | They enjoy better salaries. | They have fewer salaries than faculty. |
| Word origin | The word faculty was originated from Late Middle English: from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas, from facilis ‘easy’, from facere ‘make, do’. | The word staff was originated from Old English stæf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch staf and German Stab. |
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