Asian people in academic roles at New Zealand tertiary education institutions

By designation, 2024, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2024, Timing: Full year, Employment status: Total, Sub-sector: Total, Ethnic group: Asian, Unit: Number of staff
Designation	Number of people
Professors/Deans/Head of School	105
Associate Professors/Heads of Department	160
Senior Lecturers/Principal Lecturers	525
Lecturers/Senior Tutors/Tutors	560
Other Academic Staff/Tutorial Assistants	890
Teaching staff at PTEs	555

Definitions

Te Pūkenga: The New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (NZIST) was established in 2020 as part of reforms of vocational education. It brings together the existing 16 Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) into one organisation. The subsector label Te Pūkenga takes the place of Institutes of technology and polytechnics previously published.

Changes to data collection/processing

From the year 2016 onwards staffing counts are for the full calendar year. Before this, staffing counts were a snapshot collected in the first week of August.
From 2022 "Another gender" has been added to the tables published by gender.

Data provided by

Ministry of Education

Dataset name

Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2024

Webpage:

http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/tertiary-education/resources

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Staffing 2024' under the 'Staffing' heading.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2024

From the dataset Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2024, this data was extracted:

Sheet: HNR.6
Range: F6:AL467
Provided: 13,860 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Academic staff employed, or contracted, in tertiary education institutions, by sub-sector, designation, ethnic group and full-time/part-time status, 2015–2024.

Dataset originally released on:

April 2025

About this dataset

At the end of every year the Ministry collects aggregated staff numbers (headcount and full-time equivalent) by a range of characteristics such as full-time or part-time status, sub-sector, staff-type (academic, research and other staff), gender, ethnic group, and age group.

Method of collection/Data provider

These workforce returns come from 8 universities, 16 subsidiaries of Te Pūkenga, three wānanga, and 184 private training establishments (PTEs).

Asian people in academic roles at New Zealand tertiary education institutions

By designation, 2024, number of people

About this data

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