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HMI lead inspector for D&T, Brian Oppenheim, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now! Brian Oppenheim one of Her Majesties lead inspectors, a former teacher and head of design and technology and currently an experienced lead inspector with responsibility for the subject. In this conversation, we cover Brian's experience at school and what brought him to train to teach design and technology with the Inner London Education Authority. Brian talks us through his experiences as a head of department and...
Textiles Skills Centre, Dawn Foxall and Roy Ballam, In this episode, we are delighted to talk with Dawn Foxall and Roy Ballam about the recently released paper commissioned by the Textiles Skills Centre, 'Unravelling the Fabric of Textiles Education'. 🎧 Listen here As we seek to move the subject forward, building from the bottom up being our approach at the Association, we need to carefully look at where textiles fits into primary and secondary education. Our view is that we want to keep textile education within design and technology, a position that is...
Business Development Researcher at Engineers Without Borders UK, Rabia , Watch Rabia's video here Rabia works as a Business Development Researcher at Engineers Without Borders UK. Her favourite school subjects (art and Maths) led her into design engineering. She describes how engineering acts as a means of providing solutions to seemingly impossible problems and its value. Play video.
Headteacher, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, David Anderson MA, David studied Design and Technology at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. After gaining his first degree in 1987, he joined the first cohort of MA students, completing this in 1991. After starting his teaching career in Orpington, he became a Head of Department after two years and a Head of Faculty, in his second school in Tonbridge, after 5 years. He became Deputy Headteacher of Cranbrook School in 2002 and was appointed Headteacher at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School (Faversham) in 2008. He...
How to boost your creative thinking and inspire great ideas, Session Content: This inspiring session takes us into the ingenious world of creative educational organisation Little Inventors and its founder Dominic Wilcox, an artist, designer and inventor of unusual and surprising creations such as the world's first pair of GPS shoes, a stained glass driverless car (currently in London's Science Museum), and an art exhibition for dogs. The award winning Little Inventors inspires children to gain a passion for creative thinking by bringing their ingenious invention ideas to life. This session will...
Christopher Martin, 16 years working as a teaching assistant and technician at Tonbridge School and a DATA consultant for 15 years. A professional mechanical/production engineer with 63 years experience in design and manufacture and 50 years works and general management in a wide range of industries. Having had what I considered on refection a great apprenticeship and further education as a basis for my career I decided having semi retired to put something back into the educational system. General Areas of Consultation Vocational Education. Equipment purchasing advice . Resolving workshop layout problems careers advice. Will travel...
Nick Rose, I have worked in Design and Technology for 33 years as a teacher, advisory teacher, CAD trainer and consultant. I am passionate about the subject now and going forward. I understand the challenges facing the subject in the new curriculum and my experience at senior leader level in schools helps me advise schools on dealing with these changes. As an advisory teacher I was involved in all aspects of progressing the subject and in particular raising the standards of teaching, linking with industry and incorporating new technologies into the...
Skills Gap Resources – Product Development Applying Metal Manufacturing Processes, Skills Gap Resources – Product Development Applying Metal Manufacturing Processes Ages: 11-14 yearsFirst published 2015 This project allows KS3 students to explore the properties of metals through form and function, and ‘alter’ the characteristics by industrial processes. It was developed through a Skills Gap programme partnership between Brandauer and St. Albans Academy. This project is designed to enable a product development activity to be taught with a strong industrial context. Students research several industrial metal manufacturing processes and then apply them to the manufacture...
The changing face of textiles, I know many fellow textiles specialists are concerned about how textile fits in to the new GCSE fearing a reduction in creativity and the loss of the unique nature of textiles as a material area. I completely agree it’s important to retain everything that is special about textiles, but I also support the broader focus that the new single GCSE offers. Rather than restricting creativity, the new GCSE has the potential to allow us to focus both on the traditional elements of textiles, as well as offering us new opportunities should we choose...
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...
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