A charity that invites high-profile figures to speak in schools around the UK has called for more leading architects and designers to participate.
Speakers for Schools has around 1,100 leaders from business, industry and the arts among its volunteers.
However a list of speakers from the creative sector contains just one industrial designer, one fashion designer and no architects.
"We don't have enough people from the creative industries," Ashley Hodges, executive director at Speakers for Schools, told Dezeen.
"Some sectors have been much quicker to spot us but we've not had great success with architects and designers," she said. "We definitely need more people from the sector."
The charity, which was set up by political journalist Robert Peston in 2011, provides free speakers to secondary schools around the country. Peston established the programme after realising that state-school pupils were often unaware of the career choices available to them.
"People like Robert were invited into private schools but not state schools," Hodges said. "How do you get the top people who are leading and shaping their industries to talk to pupils in state schools" These are people they would never meet in their communities."

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