People employed or contracted by universities in New Zealand

By gender and 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 Universities, Unit: Number of staff
Designation	Gender	Number of people
Academic staff	Female	5,555
Academic staff	Male	4,845
Academic staff	Another gender	75
Research staff	Female	2,655
Research staff	Male	1,635
Research staff	Another gender	45
Other staff	Female	10,405
Other staff	Male	5,560
Other staff	Another gender	120

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.7
Range: F6:AL189
Provided: 5,520 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Staff employed or contracted by tertiary education providers by sub-sector, designation, gender 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).

People employed or contracted by universities in New Zealand

By gender and designation, 2024, number of people

About this data

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