Design Week: UK design education is failing students, says V&A chief
Published on July 29, 2014
Martin Roth, the director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, has attacked the UK education system saying it leaves too many design students lacking ‘basic skills’. His comments were reported in a piece in Design Week which also highlighted how “Earlier this year, University Alliance called for a ‘revolution’ in design education to ‘embed creativity and problem-solving into the National Curriculum’.”
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