Education Counts

Page navigation links

  • Education Counts Logo
  • Skip to Primary Navigation Menu
  • Skip to Secondary Navigation Menu
  • Skip to search
  • Skip to content

Site Search

Site Search

Site navigation menus

  • Know your Region
  • Communities of Learning
  • Find your nearest school
  • Early Learning Services
  • Directories
  • Publications
  • Indicators
  • Statistics
  • Topics
  • Data Services

Search the education counts website

Find pages with

Narrow results by:

He Whakaaro: Transitions of Initial Teacher Education graduates into teaching Publications

Publication Details

This He Whakaaro explores the rate at which graduates completing Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes in New Zealand transition into teaching roles.

Author(s): Ministry of Education

Date Published: October 2019

Summary

This report looks at trends in the number of new domestic teachers/kaiako starting out in the profession who have completed ITE qualifications. For graduates who do go on to teach, we explore employment status in their first positions – specifically whether they take up permanent, fixed term or day relief roles.

For more information on the methodology underpinning the analysis and notes on interpretation, please refer to the Technical Annex published alongside this He Whakaaro.

Key Findings

  • Since 2011, there has been a decline in the number of first-time ITE graduates ready to teach in New Zealand primary or secondary schools and kura. However, graduate numbers have slightly increased between 2016 and 2018, with further increases in primary graduates likely in 2019.
  • A high proportion of graduates from schooling ITE programmes become teachers/kaiako, with 83% of 2017 graduates gaining a teaching position within one year of graduation. This ‘transition rate’ has increased over recent years for both sectors, but more dramatically for ITE graduates heading into the primary sector – up from 65% of 2012 graduates to 85% of 2017 graduates.
  • This increase in transition rates appears to a large degree to have compensated for the reduction in graduate numbers, with the number of new domestic teachers remaining relatively stable over recent years.
  • In both sectors, new domestic teachers were more likely to be in a permanent role and less likely to be employed in a day reliever role than in previous years.
  • These trends are what we would anticipate when the supply of prospective new teachers has decreased, whilst demand for teachers has remained static or grown.
  • With transition rates for secondary graduates already high and the Ministry’s projections indicating a significant increase in demand for secondary teachers out to 2025, this analysis supports policies which will increase the future supply of secondary ITE graduates.

Navigation

  • Publication Series
  • He Whakaaro

Downloads

  • He Whakaaro (PDF, 672.5 KB)
  • Technical Annex (PDF, 541.2 KB)

Contact Us

Education Data Requests
If you have any questions about education data please contact us:
Email:   Requests EDK
Phone: +64 4 463 8065

Home Close Menu
  • Know your Region Show submenu
  • Communities of Learning Show submenu
  • Find your nearest school Show submenu
  • Early Learning Services Show submenu
  • Directories Show submenu
  • Publications Show submenu
    • Early Childhood EducationShow submenu
      • Responding to diverse cultures: Good practice in home-based early childhood servicesShow submenu
    • MāoriShow submenu
    • SchoolingShow submenu
    • PacificShow submenu
    • Tertiary EducationShow submenu
    • Learning SupportShow submenu
      • Learning Support Coordinators Evaluation: Phase 2Show submenu
    • InternationalShow submenu
    • Publication SeriesShow submenu
  • Indicators Show submenu
  • Statistics Show submenu
    • Annual Monitoring Reading RecoveryShow submenu
    • Attainment of 18-year-oldsShow submenu
    • AttendanceShow submenu
    • Attendance under COVID-19Show submenu
    • Beyond StudyShow submenu
    • Early Learning ParticipationShow submenu
    • ECE FinancesShow submenu
    • ECE ServicesShow submenu
    • ECE StaffingShow submenu
    • Early Leaving ExemptionsShow submenu
    • Entering & leaving teachingShow submenu
    • Fees Free tertiary educationShow submenu
    • Financial Support for Tertiary StudentsShow submenu
    • Funding to SchoolsShow submenu
    • HomeschoolingShow submenu
    • Initial Teacher Education StatisticsShow submenu
    • International students in NZShow submenu
    • Language use in ECEShow submenu
    • Literacy & NumeracyShow submenu
    • Māori Language in SchoolingShow submenu
    • NZ's Workplace-based LearnersShow submenu
    • Number of SchoolsShow submenu
    • Ongoing Resourcing SchemeShow submenu
    • Pacific Language in SchoolingShow submenu
    • Per Student Funding for SchoolsShow submenu
    • Post-compulsory education & trainingShow submenu
    • School BoardsShow submenu
    • School Board RepresentationShow submenu
    • School Leaver DestinationsShow submenu
    • School Leaver's AttainmentShow submenu
    • School RollsShow submenu
    • School Subject EnrolmentShow submenu
    • Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions & expulsionsShow submenu
    • Teacher NumbersShow submenu
      • 2020Show submenu
    • Teacher TurnoverShow submenu
    • Tertiary Financial PerformanceShow submenu
    • Tertiary ParticipationShow submenu
    • Tertiary Population DataShow submenu
    • Tertiary ResearchShow submenu
    • Tertiary ResourcingShow submenu
    • Tertiary Achievement & AttainmentShow submenu
    • Tertiary Summary TablesShow submenu
    • Total public expenditure on educationShow submenu
    • Transient StudentsShow submenu
    • Vocational Education & TrainingShow submenu
  • Topics Show submenu
  • Data Services Show submenu

Site information

  • Site map
  • Contact us
  • Feedback
  • About this site
  • Glossary
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright, Legal & Privacy
  • Links
  • © Education Counts 2022
  • Ministry of Education logo.
  • New Zealand Government logo.
Scroll to top of page