The Reports of the Strategy Group

In 2001 Michael Wills (the then Learning and Technology Minister) announced the setting up of the Design & Technology Strategy Group to advise ministers on how to build on the already considerable success of the subject. The group made a detailed report In June 2004 The Group reported to Ministers in June.

Alan Johnson, the Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, who has a responsibility for our subject, has welcomed the report and its recommendations. He will be building the Group's recommendations into the overall consultation on Subject Specialism and will writing to the Group in the autumn.

The Strategy Group consisted of stakeholders from a wide range of interest groups:
Academia
Goldsmiths College
Sheffield Hallam University
University of Central England

Business and Industry
Warwick Manufacturing
BAE Systems

Curriculum development
Nuffield Design & Technology
Technology Enhancement Programme

Government Departments
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency Department for Education and Skills
Department for Trade and Industry
Office for Standards in Education
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

Local Education Advisers

The Professional Association
Design and Technology Association (DATA)

Special Interest Organisations
The Design Council
The Engineering Council

You can download the full report here (204 KB) or the executive summary here (63 KB). (The summary is about a third the memory size of the full report.)

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