Claude for education and training
Schools, early learning centres, PTEs and tertiary providers use Claude for planning, resources and administration.
- Share of NZ employees
- 8.5%about 208,000 people, Feb 2025
- Highest local share
- 33%Lincoln, Canterbury
- Highest region
- 11%Manawatū-Whanganui, 11,500 employees
Where we start
Schools, early learning centres, PTEs and tertiary providers use Claude for planning, resources and administration. Teaching staff need a clear line between helping and doing the learning.
Resources and differentiation
Adapt a lesson or reading for different levels and produce matching questions and answer guides.
Administration
Draft newsletters, reports to boards and policy updates from bullet points.
Course design for trainers
Map learning outcomes to activities and assessments, and check alignment with the unit standard you provide.
Take care: Follow your institution’s guidance on AI and assessment, and keep student information out of consumer accounts.
Where the jobs are
Education and training accounts for 8.5% of paid employees in New Zealand. These are the towns and regions where its share is highest. Towns need at least 400 employees to be ranked.
Towns with the highest share of jobs in education
| Town | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 32.7% | 8.5% | |
| Ōpunake | 30.9% | 8.5% | |
| Ōtaki | 28.8% | 8.5% | |
| Helensville | 25.8% | 8.5% | |
| Te Kauwhata | 25.5% | 8.5% | |
| Darfield | 23.4% | 8.5% | |
| Kaikohe | 22.5% | 8.5% | |
| Snells Beach | 21.1% | 8.5% | |
| Ngāruawāhia | 20.9% | 8.5% | |
| Greytown | 20.7% | 8.5% |
Share of paid employees at business locations in the town. The tick marks the national share.
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
By region
| Region | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manawatū-Whanganui | 10.6% | 8.5% | |
| Gisborne | 10.4% | 8.5% | |
| Northland | 10.3% | 8.5% | |
| Wellington | 9.3% | 8.5% | |
| Otago | 8.9% | 8.5% | |
| Waikato | 8.8% | 8.5% | |
| Bay of Plenty | 8.7% | 8.5% | |
| Auckland | 8.1% | 8.5% | |
| Canterbury | 8.1% | 8.5% | |
| Hawke's Bay | 8.0% | 8.5% | |
| Taranaki | 7.9% | 8.5% | |
| Nelson | 7.1% | 8.5% | |
| Tasman | 7.0% | 8.5% | |
| Southland | 6.7% | 8.5% | |
| West Coast | 6.5% | 8.5% | |
| Marlborough | 6.1% | 8.5% |
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
Courses
1Introductory
Claude foundations workshop
A hands-on start for everyone on the team: good prompts, Projects, files and artifacts, using your own work as the examples.
2Organisation
Claude team rollout
Moving from a few enthusiasts to a whole team: plan choice, Projects structure, usage guidelines, connectors and champions.
3Advanced
Claude Code and MCP for developers
For developers and technical teams: agentic coding with Claude Code, project memory, building MCP servers and the Claude API.
Other industries
Questions
Is Claude safe to use in education?
With the right plan and rules, yes for most tasks. Follow your institution’s guidance on AI and assessment, and keep student information out of consumer accounts.
Can training use our own education examples?
Yes. We ask for a few real, non-sensitive examples beforehand, or anonymised versions, and build the exercises around them.
Train your education team
- You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
- We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
- People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
- In person
- Remote
- Half-day workshop
- Full-day workshop
- Team rollout
Independent training by TheColab. Not affiliated with Anthropic.
Enquire
Tell us about your team. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.