Alison Hardy consults for the Design and Technology Association. There has been a worrying decline in recent years in the number of teenagers opting to take design and technology (D&T) at GCSE. While ...

Design and Technology (D&T) is one of those subjects that everyone has heard of but few people know anything about. As a D&T graduate, secondary teacher and primary coordinator, I see a subject ...

The proportion of pupils taking design and technology GCSE dropped from 44 per cent in 2009 to 22 per cent in 2020. The subject is compulsory in secondary schools in England for the first three years.

A career in Technology and Design often involves developing creative, solutions to existing problems. This may mean anything from designing video games to creating indoor living spaces. As technology ...