Businesses and our communities rely on good design in every product and service. Design improves safety, quality of life and reduces costs and carbon footprint. However we now face a looming crisis. Between 2020 and 2020 the number of students studying KS4 design technology fell from 44% to 22%, the Education Policy Institute reported. The Head of Ofsted, Amanda Spielman, stated “leaders and teachers have described their school projects as adequate when in fact they were craft model making activities, improving neither pupil’s historical knowledge nor their D and T expertise”.
Design entrepreneur Kris Pointer has created a new accelerated learning development model to address this challenge. Kris explains “My MakeHub model provides many advantages over current education methods. MakeHub reduces lesson planning and costs, enhances collaborative training for staff, and improves student engagement and outcomes.” Kris offers options with workshops and legacy projects. These relate practical design skills to employability opportunities with high environmental and social value.
Kris developed the MakeHub model with university funded support and a strategic innovation coach, Clive Bonny. Clive says “Kris is an expert designer and experienced teacher and his University partnership has helped create a low cost and faster route to market. Adopting a strategy to licence his intellectual property enables education providers to apply MakeHub quality processes whilst reducing time and costs of lesson delivery. Registering MakeHub’s trademark and designs at low cost now enables licensees to replicate proven successful steps to accelerate design education and ensure it becomes a more attractive subject for students and teachers alike. Future design skills need rebuilding.”
For more information from Kris contact@makehub.co.uk 07816 600194
Or Clive@consult-smp.com 07973 799153