Design Technology

A-level Course

Pupils who choose Design & Technology at Brighton College follow the Edexcel Product Design syllabus.  The course is characterised by combining a series of flexible AS units into a varied 'Portfolio of Creative Skills', and then allowing candidates to work on a substantial commercial design project of their own at A2 level.  Candidates also sit theory examinations covering topics as wide ranging as Design History and Manufacturing Technology. 

Pupils from Brighton College often go forward to study Product Design, Engineering or Architecture at university, and they have also had considerable success with national design and engineering scholarships in recent years.

Lower 6^th (Year 12)

Upper 6^th (Year 13)

Trips/extracurricular

Product Design A level candidates make a variety of industrial visits and observational trips to galleries and exhibitions.  This year the Lower Sixth have visited the Bowers and Wilkins manufacturing facility as a Launchpad for their Product Design unit, and the upper sixth has visited the Postmodernism exhibition in the V&A museum.