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London South Bank University (LSBU) Open Evening , The recent LSBU Open Evening brought together teachers in D&T and included key figures from the sector including our CEO Tony Ryan and active participation from the Design & Technology Association team. The evening provided a first-hand look at LSBU's design and technology courses, including BSc (Hons) Engineering Product Design, BSc (Hons) Product Design, and BSc (Hons) Product Design & Developer Engineer Apprenticeship programs. These courses focus on practical skills and knowledge in their respective fields. Attendees explored LSBU's design, technology, and engineering facilities through a facility tour,...
Designing 123 pdf copy, Designing 123 Autumn 2022 Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the ideas it includes. Designing is delivered to D&T Association members as part...
D&T Practice 1.2022 pdf copy, D&T Practice 1.2022 pdf copy D&T Practice is an A4 magazine publication offering practical ideas and solutions to primary and secondary classroom teaching in Design and Technology and the best of practice. Covering all focus areas, it includes case studies of classroom projects, product and resource reviews and profiles of companies in the field, as well as news about the Design and Technology Association and events and activities taking place in design and technology. D&T Practice is published three times a year and is available to Primary and Secondary Association members and...
Delivering skills, often lacking, to the next generation of D&T teachers, D&TA providing specialist training for SCITT trainees at Pioneers Partnership SCITT For 30 years I have taught in or led Design and Technology departments, and in the last few years, I have seen a real need for additional support and training for D&T teachers. Where possible, I have tried to provide support, resources, or training to help them, but this was often limited by my full-time teaching commitments. Earlier this year I decided it was time to leave the classroom and return to the UK where...
Membership Magazines and Publications, Magazine summaries and annual subscription rates The D&T Association produces magazines to accompany our different membership options. You can subscribe to all our magazines as hard copies or you can download them in pdf format. See below for the synopsis of each publication. Advertisers: please contact us via advertising@data.org.uk or call Debbie on 01789 470007 Designing Magazine Designing is an A3 print magazine for secondary and university students that celebrates excellence in design across different sectors to help encourage students to consider careers in engineering, product design and...
DOING IT FOR THE GIRLS!, Female School Students Set To Take Global Robotics Stage By Storm Today is all about Girl Power and on International Women’s Day (8th March 2018), one all-girls school in London is celebrating their achievements in STEM learning as students prepare to embark on a journey to be crowned VEX Robotics World Champions. Hampstead based Henrietta Barnett School for Girls has its own robotics club which has been solely credited for increasing the uptake of pupils enrolling on Design &Technology courses at both GCSE and A-Level at the school. The GCSE course alone...
House of Lords Select Committee on Youth Unemployment - Thursday 24th June 2021, Firstly, I am delighted that we were invited to present to this committee. As your professional Association, one would hope that we would be an automatic choice when discussing the subject and wider technical/vocational learning; historically, that has not always been the case. This is the first time that I have attended a select committee, and I must admit that I found the process (all on Zoom) incredibly reassuring. The committee was very well informed, curious, sharp with their questions and appeared to be genuinely...
GCSE Textiles Rescue, In 2012 the D&T Association developed the GCSE Textiles Rescue programme, sponsored by the All Saints Educational Trust. The programme included national and regional workshops and on-line seminars for textiles teachers aiming to improve Textiles Technology GCSE results. Presentations from the six seminars have been fully revised by Julie Messenger and updated in 2014 and are available for download. They include edited recordings from the events. Please note: these resources refer to the previous GCSE specification and not the current D&T GCSE. On-line Seminars Top tips for planning...
Chinese schools get a lesson from Britain, While China has excellent academic results, the British curriculum has the upper hand with design – it's a shame our Government doesn't recognise this, says Richard Green The transformation of China in our lifetime has been nothing short of extraordinary. The speed of China’s resurgence – from the economic and human catastrophe of the Great Leap Forward to today’s superpower economy – has been so swift that it has mesmerised many in the West. Napoleon was right: China was a sleeping giant, but when she awoke she moved the...
Coventry Academy Student Team, crowned F1 in Schools UK Champions, winning a place in the world finals in Malaysia, Coventry Academy Student Team, crowned F1 in Schools UK Champions, winning a place in the world finals in Malaysia A great day was spent at the F1 in Schools Championships at Silverstone where we were privileged to see so many young people passionate about design and technology and applying that knowledge to building F1 cars! Julie Nugent, Chief Executive of the Design & Technology Association commented that “The event was packed out and it was particularly pleasing...
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