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

By designation and employment status, 2022, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2022, 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	1,110
Part-time	Professors/Deans/Head of School	350
Full-time	Associate Professors/Heads of Department	1,205
Part-time	Associate Professors/Heads of Department	285
Full-time	Senior Lecturers/Principal Lecturers	2,720
Part-time	Senior Lecturers/Principal Lecturers	1,035
Full-time	Lecturers/Senior Lecturers/Tutors	3,065
Part-time	Lecturers/Senior Lecturers/Tutors	3,060
Full-time	Other Academic Staff/Tutorial Assistants	895
Part-time	Other Academic Staff/Tutorial Assistants	3,595
Full-time	Teaching staff at PTEs	1,830
Part-time	Teaching staff at PTEs	2,060

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: Human Resources 2022

Webpage:

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

How to find the data

At URL provided, select 'Human Resources 2022'.

Import & extraction details

File as imported: Tertiary Education Resources: Human Resources 2022

From the dataset Tertiary Education Resources: Human Resources 2022, 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, 2013–2022.

Dataset originally released on:

April 2023

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, 2022, number of people

About this data

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