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Last year I wrote a post about the measures the Kenyan government is implementing in order to curb gender imbalance in the Engineering industry. Well, this year, I was invited by the National Industrial Training Council (NITC) to share my experience with the 6th and newest intake into the programme.
Read more...I think that everyone has a lot of pride and that tingly feeling when they think of their university and the opportunities that it has given us. But I wanted to show current work that students at Kingston University (my very own) have recently produced. The winner and many of the runners up were from Kingston which doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I'm so glad that Kingston is going strong and helping students produce some fantastic work.
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A little over a week ago, I travelled to Wales to run a workshop with university students, on design for good. Specifically exploring how graphic design can contribute to positive change.
It was a rewarding day. The students were engaged, creative and humorous, and I can't wait to see what they come up with in response to the term-long brief I've set them.
Key questions explored included:
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I listened to a fascinating Ted Talk the other day, by researcher Charles Leadbeater. After visiting slums around the world, he affirms that radical innovation does indeed often take place out of necessity.
He is particularly interested in innovation in education and the young people he met in South America, Africa and Asia all illustrated that to be effective, education needs to pull rather than push. He asks us to
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