The Design Council's 'How to' guide for design and technology teachers takes you through 10 easy steps to running a design workshop and includes advice on what materials you will need, how to push your students to think bigger and better and how you can tailor workshops to fit the time you have to spare.

With new changes to the role and view of design, design professionals are now a part of greater thinking and action on issues that are traditionally outside of the designer's realm. How does design education adapt to this reality? Russell Kennedy explores this and the role that the Icograda Education Network plays in the future of design education.

With a hands-on approach, through art, design and hip hop, KT Meaney challenges her students to collaborate with a local youth centre to launch a truly awareness-raising exhibition. Meaney describes her students' exploration not just with "real world experiences" but with "better world experiences."

James Corazzo describes outcomes of the Thoughtful Six Project, an attempt to rethink the work placement for graphic design students. Rather than the students at Stockport College trying to find a work placement in lots of different design agencies, the agency Thoughtful did a placement within the college.

In this day of age where environmental concern is critical, visual communication design has to consider an integration of ecological awareness into its education programs. Oleh Aristarchus Pranayama argues that design educators can play a role in cultivating future "citizen designers" through visual communication design education which implement ecological awareness.

Karin Derkley describes how Wiradjuri man Dr Norman Sheehan is helping to set up a new centre for Indigenous knowledge and design anthropology. The new centre aims to introduce Indigenous influences to the way knowledge is taught and regarded in Western universities.

Is the design profession at risk thanks to globalised hordes of web-savvy amateurs? Florian Schmidt discusses this in Issue 74 of eye magazine.

Leading Icograda's Education Portfolio on behalf of the Executive Board for the 2009-2011 term, Vice President Omar Vulpinari outlines new initiatives for 2010.

Design education is failing to equip students with the necessary skills to work in public services if it remains solely focused on product and industrial design, according to a new paper published in June 2009 by theRoyal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

On 2 October 2009, Icograda Education Network (IEN) Member Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU) was recognised for the third time by BusinessWeek as one of the top design schools around the world.