About CORE Education

Ko te pā harakeke

The family

CORE Education is a not-for-profit educational research and development based organisation with an international reputation for support and promotion of the use of new technologies for learning across all education and training sectors.

CORE Education is devoted to improving education, and therefore ensures it is not only at the forefront of educational matters, but leading them.

CORE Education's mission

CORE Education's five stables:

CORE Education's focus is split into five "stables" of activity. We depict it like this.

CORE's Five Stables: professional learning, online innovation, research, thought leadership

These five foundations form the basis of CORE's brands.

The harakeke (flax) speaks of our New Zealand origins and bicultural heritage. The woven harakeke interweaves each stable. We see CORE as being at the core of the weaving process from the raw flax leaves. The harakeke is also a Maori symbol for the greater family, hence the whakatauki (Maori saying) at the head of this page.

CORE Education's Brands (coming soon)
CORE's Five Stables and the harakeke

Sharing best practice

CORE is committed to sharing best practice and disseminating research findings.

CORE’s conference team provides outstanding and highly acclaimed professional development opportunities for educators, locally, nationally and internationally, including exposure to some of the world’s leading thinkers in education.
Every year, we run a series of workshops, seminars, real and virtual conferences for educators in all sectors across New Zealand, including New Zealand’s largest practitioner conference ULearn.
CORE staff regularly present at national and international conferences and events, and have undertaken lecture series in the USA and Australia.
CORE has been invited to participate in ministerial groups showcasing New Zealand’s educational services overseas (e.g. Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia).
CORE’s commitment to sustainable business practices includes the use of online, mobile technologies and video conferencing to communicate with staff, business partners and clients around New Zealand and the world.

Not-for-profit

CORE Education takes its not-for-profit status very seriously. Recently CORE established CORE Foundation, under which it supports both financially and by way of time and expertise. It also is in the process of unveiling its portfolio of awards and grants for the purpose of furthering education in New Zealand.

CORE Foundation

International consultancy

CORE is involved in a number of international consultancy projects, working with local institutions, state authorities and national Governments in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, USA and the UK.

CORE took the lead role in the acclaimed Innovation New Zealand Education consortium project, which was built upon CORE’s successful ICT PD cluster model.