An article in TESS this week highlights the importance of creativity in art and science as an S4 physics class visit Glasgow School of Art’s product design engineering course and see that it is the combination of creative and analytical skills that are required to make great innovative products:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6268747

Connected to this theme, is a session at SLF on Thursday 20 September, a round table discussion with Dame Ellen MacArthur: Rethinking the Future: technology, design and business in the 21st century, which will focus on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s research into the circular economy, an industrial economy that designs out waste, with strong links to many aspects of Curriculum for Excellence including: interdisciplinary learning, creativity, design, technologies, sustainability, economics, science, engineering, enterprise and skills development.