UK Design Skills Development Plan
Many agencies including the government are revisiting the need to place real and greart value and importance on DESIGN SKILLS. Taking a step back so we can see the bigger picture we might see that many things are acting indepentantely which if brought together might actually begin to solve the problem we have in GB that Design Skills are not just creating pictures and patterns but about real world problem solving, creativity in bringing knowledge and understanding to to create a better world. Designing skills are essential to an effective economy.
The review of the National Curriculum; recent media ocus on entrepreneurial skills; Govenrment’s aim to enhance designing skills to increse national capability competing in a grobal economy; the exponential rate of change our young persons are living with. These are all factor that provide more than adequate justifiaction for schools in Wiltshire to embrace this challenge.
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