The knowledge and understanding you get from D&T projects give you transferrable skills that you can apply to solving real issues in the real world. Collaborative working, iterative design approaches, planning and problem-solving are skills you can put to use in a vast range of career options. Careers for the future: Technology is developing all the time and keeping up with fast-paced change is essential. The jobs people will be doing tomorrow will be radically different from many of those done today. Future-proofi ng your prospects is essential if you are to have control over your choices. A-level D&T opens doors to a wide range of careers in the creative, engineering and manufacturing industries as well as medicine, law and computer science. The knowledge and skills you learn, such as teamwork and time management, will be valued by employers. Creativity and innovation: create fantastic designs and make brilliant products. D&T is purposeful, but it’s also exciting and fun! Studying D&T will involve you in learning about designing and manufacturing, using your knowledge and skills to design and make new and better solutions to real problems – on your own and with others – working with the materials you choose. You will study a broad course, which builds on the core of what you have been taught across the GCSE and focuses on the designing and making of products including materials like timbers, metals and polymers, as well as papers and boards and even some electronics and fabrics. Students should ideally have followed a GCSE D&T course. Product Design is all about designing and making products in an innovative and creative way. It’s about learning how things are made. You will be designing and making a solution to a problem set by the department through designing, modelling and practical sessions utilising the subject knowledge that runs alongside it.
About Education Provider
| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Oxfordshire |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Boys |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | £48,075 |
| Sixth Form Fee | £48,075 |
| Address | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 2HR |
The knowledge and understanding you get from D&T projects give you transferrable skills that you can apply to solving real issues in the real world. Collaborative working, iterative design approaches, planning and problem-solving are skills you can put to use in a vast range of career options. Careers for the future: Technology is developing all the time and keeping up with fast-paced change is essential. The jobs people will be doing tomorrow will be radically different from many of those done today. Future-proofi ng your prospects is essential if you are to have control over your choices. A-level D&T opens doors to a wide range of careers in the creative, engineering and manufacturing industries as well as medicine, law and computer science. The knowledge and skills you learn, such as teamwork and time management, will be valued by employers. Creativity and innovation: create fantastic designs and make brilliant products. D&T is purposeful, but it’s also exciting and fun! Studying D&T will involve you in learning about designing and manufacturing, using your knowledge and skills to design and make new and better solutions to real problems – on your own and with others – working with the materials you choose. You will study a broad course, which builds on the core of what you have been taught across the GCSE and focuses on the designing and making of products including materials like timbers, metals and polymers, as well as papers and boards and even some electronics and fabrics. Students should ideally have followed a GCSE D&T course. Product Design is all about designing and making products in an innovative and creative way. It’s about learning how things are made. You will be designing and making a solution to a problem set by the department through designing, modelling and practical sessions utilising the subject knowledge that runs alongside it.