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

By gender and employment status, 2025, number of people

The following information applies to all values in the table. Year: 2025, Sub-sector: Total, Designation: Total, Unit: Number of staff
Employment status	Gender	Number of people
Full-time	Female	5,030
Part-time	Female	5,815
Full-time	Male	5,255
Part-time	Male	3,665
Full-time	Another gender	70
Part-time	Another gender	265

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.8
Range: F6:AI269
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, 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).

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

By gender and employment status, 2025, number of people

About this data

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