Tertiary education offers a passport to success in modern life. It helps people improve their lives and the lives of those around them. It provides the specific tools for a career, and is the engine of knowledge creation.

This report gives insights into employment trends in New Zealand by industry and region, summarises data on labour supply factors and participation, and presents information on indicators of labour supply and demand matching. Summary This report combines the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s labour market monitoring programme with the latest developments in the labour...

The ageing of New Zealand’s academic workforce requires careful management, however, universities now have a larger pool of ‘other’ academic staff from which rejuvenation of the senior academic workforce could occur. Key findings In 2013, the age structure of the academic staff at universities and polytechnics was substantially older than at wānanga: 47 percent of...

Abstract Objectives In Forecasting mortality in New Zealand: A new approach for population projections using a coherent functional demographic model, we summarise the investigation of a new method for formulating mortality assumptions (ie forecasting mortality) that was implemented in official New Zealand population projections in 2012. Methods

Contains questions, findings and recommendations important to raising services-sector productivity in New Zealand, focusing on the adoption of information and communications technology by service firms. Overview: This is the Productivity Commission’s 2nd interim report as part of its inquiry Boosting Productivity in the Services Sector. The report focuses on two topics that are significant to...