Changing the structure of industrial design education from four year Bachelor's degrees to Undergraduate plus Masters degrees in the Australian context
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2009
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Schumacher, P.C.
Trathen, S.
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Justice, L.
Lam, Y.Y.
Yung, Y.S.
Lam, Y.Y.
Yung, Y.S.
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Proceedings of the 2009 DesignEd Asia conference: forget the future, what are today's design education issues?, 2009 / Justice, L., Lam, Y.Y., Yung, Y.S. (ed./s), pp.1-17
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DesignEd Asia Conference 2009: Forget the Future, What are Today's Design Education Issues? (1 Dec 2009 - 2 Dec 2009 : Hong Kong)
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The paper describes Australian design education and how they inform the structuring of education pathways for Industrial Design (ID). Against the historical context of the shift from vocational training to university education, the impact of the ‘Bologna Process’ is examined. The decentralised model of Australian ID education allows for a range of approaches, and of a total of 10 undergraduate ID providers, only two are changing from a four year bachelors degree to a three year bachelors degree followed by a two year masters degree. The University of Canberra (UC) and the University of South Australia (UniSA) will introduce the new structure, previously untested in Australia, from 2010 and 2011 respectively. The potential impact of having both a four and a three year undergraduate pathway to the degree course is also considered.
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