Response from DIT School of Art, Design & Printing
Develop spaces that encourage disciplines such as computer science, art and design, anthropology, psychology and business to explore jointly new opportunities provided by ICT.
Fostering art and design/business partnerships works best at postgraduate level as students have achieved a sufficient level of real world experience.
Universities should have a role in this by facilitating programmes focusing on Continuing Professional Development .
The establishment of formal links between art and design schools and cultural institutions in addition to the existing school to school links is essential to exploiting the value of cultural diversity.
The development of a formal system for creative partnerships between CCI’s and educational institutions/ business/administrations is essential .The existing approach of workplacement is too piecemeal and underestimates the real difficulty of matching business and educational needs and objectives .
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