People & Skills
Skilled labour force
The position of Auckland as a hub in New Zealand’s education system is mirrored in its work force. Some 30 percent of all Auckland city adult residents have a Bachelors degree or higher qualification. About 85 per cent of all Auckland residents have secondary qualification.
This growing city offers a growing labour force where highly educated people from all over the world put their skills into a growing economy.
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Growing labour force
The number of employees in Auckland is constantly increasing; between 2003 and 2007 ten per cent in Auckland city and thirteen per cent in the Auckland region.
The median age of Auckland’s population is 33.4 years, two years below New Zealand’s median age (35.5 years). That makes Auckland’s and New Zealand’s population one of the youngest in the OECD countries. Both Auckland’s fast growing population and number of employees make New Zealand’s economic powerhouse achieve 39 per cent of the national GDP.
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Good education
The excellent New Zealand education system leads to a well-educated, motivated, experienced and committed talent pool. Some 50 per cent of students in New Zealand finish with a tertiary qualification, compared to an OECD-average of 36 per cent.
Auckland is home to University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, and several Institutes, like Unitec Institute of Technology. Studying in Auckland means being international and multicultural, as 17 per cent of all tertiary students come from overseas. Every one of them brings important skills to Auckland, and many of the graduates stay in the city and become an important part of Auckland’s business life.
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The Learning Quarter
The University of Auckland, AUT University and Auckland City Council have come together in partnership to guide the development of the Learning Quarter, a hub for university education, research and development. The Learning Quarter has the country’s largest concentration of students, researchers, teachers, innovators and creators, clustered around the university campuses in Auckland’s CBD.
Sources:
Statistics New Zealand.
OECD: Education at a Glance 2007. Rate is calculated by summing the graduation rates by single year of age in 2005. OECD here takes the “typical age cohort for tertiary education that follows and successfully completes tertiary programmes […]”.