Brexit design summit: UK design education is "very weak" and studios will continue to rely on overseas talent unless the government invests in schools, leading designers have told Dezeen.
Speaking at our Brexit design summit last week, designer Michael Marriott said "the British education system is so f*cked at the moment."
"Funding is being stripped and there are less facilities," he added, saying that UK students were being forced to study overseas, where facilities are better.
"I had a young English guy working for me," Marriott said. "He looked at a couple of British universities and for a quarter of the price he's gone to Amsterdam to study in way better facilities that are beyond anything we have in this country." Speaking at the Brexit design summit, designer Michael Marriott said that UK students are being forced to study abroad where facilities are better
Architect Amanda Levete agreed, saying she had to employ architects trained overseas because they are better than home-grown ones.
"The reason that so many of the young architects we employ come from outside of the UK is because the architectural education in Europe is frankly better," she said.
Half of Levete's 50 employees are from overseas.
"Conceptually the architectural education here is very strong, but technically it's very weak," she added. "So architects who have been educated outside of the UK are kind of office-ready."

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