WHEN THE BLOAT BEGAN: NON-ACADEMIC STAFFING AT NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITIES, 1961-1997

Figure 2: Non-academics as a percentage of total staff at New Zealand universities, 1961-1997 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 We can get a beter sense of the nature of the surge in the proporon of non-academic staff in 1991 by looking at the yearbooks’ breakdowns of academics and non-academics into full-me and part- me staff. [...] The administrave and other staff categories comprised 34% and 24% of the total at both the start and the end of the period. [...] Figure 5: Categories of non-academic as a proportion of total non-academic staff in New Zealand in 1970 (left) and 1985 (right) Administrative, clerical and 1970 1985 typing Technical and computer Library Staff Other (grounds, trades and cleaners) In 1987 and 1988, the yearbooks shied to the eight categories used in Figure 6. [...] Figure 11: Categories of non-academic as a proportion of total non-academic staff in New Zealand in 1995 (left) and 1997 (right) Technician 1995 1997 Librarian and library assistant Student/Commu nity Services General staff General services staff In all these periods, then, there was no or only very slight change in the proporon of non-academics in the different categories. [...] 9 Figure 12: Categories of non-academic as a proportion of total non-academic staff in New Zealand in 2002 (left) and 2021 (right) Advisory and general support staff 2002 (revised) 2021 Librarians Student welfare Executive staff General services staff Technicians In our report, we put these changes into the context of similar changes in the composion of university bureaucracies in the UK, US, Cana.