Design education disaster averted
Scroll back to the beginning of the year and the future for design education in English schools looked pretty bleak.
Pupils to be taught 3D printing in education shake-up
The Government has dropped ‘dumbed-down’ proposals for teaching design and instead unveiled a National Curriculum which will see pupils taught practical skills and techniques such as 3D printing.
A future for creative education
I came away from last night’s D&AD event on creative education with a notebook full of quotes but little clarity on what, if anything, the future of creative education in
Pilots: Navigating Next Models of Design Education
Pilots: Navigating Next Models of Design Education is a month long season of experiments in education.
Could performance-related fees be the answer to our debt-laden higher education system?
Sat in the departures area of Florence Airport recently I struck up a conversation with two fellow travellers. Two medical students from New York, but who quietly admitted they studied in
Government includes design in education reforms
The Government has abandoned plans for the controversial English Baccalaureate Certificate, and is reforming the GCSE system to include design.
Creative industries keep up attack on Government education policy
The Government’s plan to overhaul the GCSE examination system, and cut out creative subjects including design, is facing a two-pronged attack from the creative industry.
Education in the age of rising fees and speed learning
In a controversial essay published on the Core 77 website in 2010 (‘Why Design Education Must Change’), the author and design commentator Don Norman wrote: ‘New skills are required, especially
Not prioritising design education is ‘disastrous’, says Frayling
Former Royal College of Art rector Sir Christopher Frayling says a failure to prioritise design education is ‘disastrous’ for the economy.
A future model for design education?
Fabrica, which unveiled its new management structure this week, did so with some rather ambitious language, suggesting that the institution ‘intends to consolidate its role as an international cultural centre’.
Alt/Shift conference tackles design education
The past couple of years have seen some pretty major upheavals in design education – namely threats to cut Art & Design from the National Curriculum in schools and HEFCE
Design education should stick to its core strengths
I spent three brilliant, insightful and satisfying years in Sheffield in the late 90s learning to be a product designer. I couldn’t have imagined that almost 15 years later I
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