Nick Billowes

Combining his years of teaching and management experience along with a commitment to new technologies and passion for professional development, Nick was in an ideal position to help establish the organisation that was to become CORE Education, Ultralab South in April, 2003.

Having met Professor Stephen Heppell, a leading thinker in the technology and education field and director of Ultralab in the UK, Nick was inspired to establish a similar organisation in the southern hemisphere.  His role within Ultralab South and CORE Education has evolved since then and he remains passionate about the role of CORE in making the learning and teaching experience more real and satisfying for all involved.

But seriously, the director of development role entails living a "a rather itinerant life”, travelling the country and beyond developing CORE’s business by establishing partnerships and project opportunities, as well as working to oversee the ECE ICT PL programme (Early Childhood Education, Information and Communication Technology Professional Learning) as well as several other CORE Education national projects - one of several of the Ministry of Education contracts that CORE currently manages.