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Academia debate to be held in Leeds

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

June 6, 2008 | 2 min read

Recruitment consultancy Character Creative is hosting a Question Time style debate in Leeds on 12 June, addressing the ongoing battle to get design students ready for industry.

The Stopping the Buck event takes place at the Oracle Bar and will be hosted by Brian Minards, who will be adjudicating over a panel of two industry figure heads and two representatives of local academia, providing weight to each side of the debate.

Minards is a director at Ideas Group and has lectured in design and business schools at leading UK and US universities and as Visiting Professor at the University of Florida.

The design industry side will be represented by Torben Dunn and Lee McCormack. They are respectively group design director for Elmwood, and product designer and author of the book, Designers are wankers.

Representing academia is Guy Julier, professor of design at Leeds Metropolitan University, and Mike Sheedy, head of graphic and communication design at the University of Leeds.

The aim of the event is to bring the creative community together, from the most experienced to the newly or soon to be qualified, and provide a platform for intellectual discussion as well as help people make their own new contacts.

People are invited to arrive anytime after 6pm with the debate starting at 7.30pm. The event is sponsored by CreativePool.co.uk – the UK’s creative recruitment and directory resource.

More information can be found here.

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