The Skills for Planet Map by the Design Council is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license We are looking for individuals and groups to present their work on Skills for Planet for our Innovations in Practice event on 22 October 2025. This could be how you are developing and delivering sustainability and critical green design skills in your practice and, ideally, adopting and aligning with the Design Council Skills for Planet Blueprint. This could be a short, ten minute presentation on - Creating a Green Design Skills Mindset and Influencing Green Behaviour Circular Design and Embedding a Circular Economy Learning from Nature, Biodiversity...

Last year the Design Council launched its Skills for Planet Mission: to upskill 1 million designers with green design skills by 2030. Given that students are the designers of tomorrow, as HE agenda setters we have a key role to play in providing them with the critical green skills they need to design responsibly.These skills are outlined in the Skills for Planet Blueprint. Whether you have started on your journey to embed green design skills into your curricula or not, the Blueprint is a resource that can help you get started or validate your existing work. We are...

The education landscape across level 3 qualifications that lead into Higher Education is being reformed. UAL are hosting a webinar specifically for Higher Education Institutions to share: Details of these reforms. Actions being undertaken by UALAB. How Higher Education Institutions can prepare for these changes. The webinar is aimed at HEIs that take learners with UAL Level 3 qualifications onto their undergraduate programmes. The information will be particularly relevant for staff members involved in the recruitment of, and entry requirements for, learners joining their courses. The webinar will be hosted remotely via Zoom and is entirely free of charge. We...

This blog is the second in a series and has kindly been provided by Vanessa Corby Professor Theory, History and Practice of ArtYork St John University The State and art & design education in England: Part One, ‘Rip-Off Degrees’, the poverty of expectations for the discipline and neoliberalism When I say there is a poverty of expectations for art and design educational outcomes in this country, I’m not saying anything that the discipline doesn’t already know. The present impoverishment of the National Curriculum and its effects were foretold in Bob and Roberta Smith’s Letter to Michael Gove MP, 25 January...

What do creative arts graduates do? The destinations of graduates from creative subjects compares well with graduates across the whole of the higher education sector. Creative arts graduates employment is often related to their degree, with two-fifths entering arts, design and media roles. They are more likely than others to be in part-time employment and/or freelancing. Across the general workforce the creative sector boasts the highest level of education, with 78% holding degrees compared with 32% across the UK workforce as a whole. Numbers of graduates from Creative Arts subjects in 2016/17 were 38,370, however, our programmes do appear to...