Academic staff employed or contracted by tertiary education providers in New Zealand

By designation and employment status, 2024, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2024, Timing: Full year, Sub-sector: Total, Gender: Total, Unit: Number of staff
Employment status	Designation	Number of people
Full-time	Professors/Deans/Head of School	1,170
Part-time	Professors/Deans/Head of School	405
Full-time	Associate Professors/Heads of Department	1,110
Part-time	Associate Professors/Heads of Department	350
Full-time	Senior Lecturers/Principal Lecturers	2,665
Part-time	Senior Lecturers/Principal Lecturers	1,020
Full-time	Lecturers/Senior Lecturers/Tutors	2,710
Part-time	Lecturers/Senior Lecturers/Tutors	2,445
Full-time	Other Academic Staff/Tutorial Assistants	950
Part-time	Other Academic Staff/Tutorial Assistants	3,730
Full-time	Teaching staff at PTEs	1,770
Part-time	Teaching staff at PTEs	2,130

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.8
Range: F6:AL269
Provided: 7,920 data points

This data forms the table Tertiary Education - Academic staff employed, or contracted, in tertiary education organisations, by sub-sector, designation, gender 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).

Academic staff employed or contracted by tertiary education providers in New Zealand

By designation and employment status, 2024, number of people

About this data

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