People employed or contracted by private training establishments in New Zealand

By age group and designation, 2025, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2025, Employment status: Total, Sub-sector: Private training establishments, Unit: Number of staff
Designation	Age group	Number of people
Academic staff	0-29	440
Academic staff	30-49	1,690
Academic staff	50-59	800
Academic staff	60-64	345
Academic staff	65+	435
Academic staff	U	55
Other staff	0-29	415
Other staff	30-49	1,335
Other staff	50-59	700
Other staff	60-64	270
Other staff	65+	240
Other staff	U	0

Data provided by

Ministry of Education

Dataset name

Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025

Webpage:

https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/tertiary-staffing

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Staffing 2025' under the 'Staffing' heading.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025

From the dataset Tertiary Education Resources: Staffing 2025, this data was extracted:

Sheet: HNR.3
Range: F6:AI327
Provided: 9,660 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Staff employed or contracted by tertiary education providers by sub-sector, designation, and age group 2016–2025.

Dataset originally released on:

June 2026

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 came from 8 universities, 15 polytechnics, 3 wānanga and 168 private training establishments (PTEs).

People employed or contracted by private training establishments in New Zealand

By age group and designation, 2025, number of people

About this data

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