Design and Technology (Textiles Technology)

Course summary

This creative and thought-provoking qualification has been designed to encourage students to take a broad view of design and technology related to all areas of Fashion and Textiles. It enables them to use practical skills together with theoretical knowledge to have the confidence to succeed in a number of careers, especially in the creative industries. Students will develop their abilities to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relationships between design, materials, manufacturing and marketing. Fashion and Textiles A-level provides wide opportunities for study, ranging from fashion and aesthetics to industrial uses of textiles and from creative and individual pieces of work to aspects of manufacturing and industrial commercial practice. Students will also use maths and science skills which will be employed in the collaborative projects with professionals from industry. The course has been designed to take students on to a higher level of Fashion and Textiles or product design study prior to a university course. Equally, it would interest students who have a flair for the subject butd who simply want to study it as part of a planned route through Sixth Form studies.