| Useful organisations
QCA
29 Bolton Street
London W1Y 7PD
Tel: 020 7509 5555
Fax: 020 7509 6666
e-mail: info@qca.org.uk
website: www.qca.org.uk
DATA (Design and Technology Association)
16 Wellesbourne House
Walton Road
Wellesbourne
Warwickshire CV35 9JB
Tel: 01789 470007
Fax: 01789 841955
e-mail: data@data.org.uk
website: www.data.org.uk
BECTa (formerly NCET (British Educational Communications and Technology
Agency)
Millburn Hill Road
Science Park
Coventry CV4 7JJ
Tel: 024 7641 6994
Fax: 024 7411 1418
e-mail: becta@becta.org.uk
website: www.becta.org.uk
NATHE/DATA (National Association of Teachers of Home Economics and Technology)
(amalgamated with DATA )
DATA London Office
Hamilton House
Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9BJ
Tel: 020 7387 1441
Fax: 020 7383 7230
e-mail: nathe@globalnet.co.uk
website: www.data.org.uk
NAAIDT (National Association of Advisers and Inspectors in Design and
Technology)
NAAIDT Publications (available from DATA )
16 Wellesbourne House
Walton Road
Wellesbourne
Warwickshire CV35 9JB
Tel: 01789 470007
Fax: 01789 841955
e-mail: naaidt@naaidt.org.uk
website: www.naaidt.org.uk
Nuffield Design and Technology
Nuffield Foundation
28 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3EG
Tel: 020 7436 4412
Fax: 020 7436 1869
RCA Schools Technology Project
c/o Technology Colleges Trust
23rd Floor West Millbank Tower
21-24 Millbank
London SW1P 4QP
Tel: 020 7802 2330
Fax: 020 7802 2345
British Nutrition Foundation
High Holborn House
52 ?54 High Holborn
London WC1V 6RQ
Tel: 020 7404 6504
Fax: 020 7404 6747
e-mail: postbox@nutrition.org.uk
website: www.nutrition.org.uk
TEP (Technology Enhancement Programme)
Gatsby Technical Education Project
4/7 Red Lion Court
London EC4A 3EB
Tel: 020 7583 0900
Fax: 020 7583 0909
e-mail: gtep@gtep.co.uk
website: www.tep.org.uk
ITDG (formerly Intermediate Technology)
The Schumacher Centre for Technology and Development
Bourton Hall
Bourton-on-Dunsmore
Rugby
Warwickshire CV23 9QZ
Tel: 01788 661100
Fax: 01788 661101
e-mail: itdg@itdg.org.uk
website: oneworld.org/itdg
Useful resources
Other materials teachers may find useful:
- The national curriculum for England (HMSO, 1999)
- Design and technology, the national curriculum for England (QCA/DfEE,
1999)
- Food in schools: ideas, planning a project, a recipe for the future
(QCA, 1997)
- Optional tests and tasks (key stage 3) design and technology (SCAA,
1996)
Four units plus teacher's booklet
- Exemplification of standards: design and technology at key stage 3
(SCAA, 1996)
- Use of language - key stage 3 design and technology (SCAA, 1997)
- Characteristics of good practice in design and technology (HMSO)
- Characteristics of good practice in food technology (HMSO, 1996)
- Standards in the secondary curriculum 1997-98 (Ofsted)
- Exemplification of standards for health and safety training in design
and technology
(DATA research paper no.10, 1998)
- Secondary head of department handbook (DATA, 1997)
- Learning futures textiles - A teacher's guide to good practice in textiles
technology (NATHE, 1998)
- Quality through progression (NAAIDT, 1998)
- A balance of good health information pack (Health Education Authority,
1996)
- Food technology (British Nutrition Foundation, 1997)
- Schemes of work and frameworks for planning produced by LEAs
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