The RCA is set to expand with another new campus near its existing buildings in Battersea, after the UK government pledged to contribute funding for the project in its autumn spending statement. More
Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers, Jasper Morrison and Tom Dixon have joined a campaign against plans to move The Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design and cut 19 of its courses. More
How can young designers break into the industry? In the first of a new series of careers-advice columns from Dezeen's recruitment platform Dezeen Jobs, Rob Bye offers some tips. More
The Cooper Hewitt museum in New York has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for its Design in the Classroom programme, which it hopes to launch across the US. More
The UK's design industry is under threat due to the government's failure to invest in creative education, according to London Design Festival founder John Sorrell. More
Royal College of Art rector Paul Thompson has apologised for making comments that appeared to blame departing staff for putting the school in "an unnecessary state of jeopardy" and has defended the school's financial position. More
The Royal College of Art has suspended its world-famous Design Interactions course after failing to find replacements for staff who resigned earlier this year. More
New York architect Deborah Berke will succeed Robert A M Stern as dean of the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. More
MASS Design Group, a nonprofit US firm, plans to start an architecture and design training centre in Kigali, Rwanda, to help address the "dearth of professional designers" across Africa (+ movie). More
London's position as a leading creative city is under threat thanks to rent rises, arts education funding cuts and a government that is "scared by creativity," according to this year's London Design Medal winners Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby. More
Every 11-year-old child in the UK is to be given a programmable pocket-sized device designed by Technology Will Save Us to help them express their creativity through technology (+ slideshow). More
The Royal College of Art's dean of architecture Alex de Rijke has become the latest staff member to announce their departure from the London institution. More
The education system is "obsolete" and fails to reflect the way creative people work, according to trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who is introducing a new department of Hybrid Design Studies at Parsons School of Design in New York (+ interview). More
Iranian-American designer Nader Tehrani has been made dean of architecture at The Cooper Union in New York, one of the most prestigious art and design universities in the United States. More
Graduate shows 2015: the head of Central Saint Martins' BA Fashion course has voiced support for a guerrilla presentation staged by students who were not chosen to exhibit at the school's official press show. More
Opinion: the farcical in-fighting between architectural education and practitioners – who blame each other for the industry's failures – has to stop, says Robert Mull, dean of the Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design. More
Monica Ponce de Leon has been named the new dean of the Princeton School of Architecture, following the sudden departure of Alejandro Zaera-Polo in October 2014. More
New York-based designer Constantin Boym has been selected to lead the industrial design department at one of America's prominent design schools. More
Design writer Justin McGuirk has been named head of the writing and curating programme at Design Academy Eindhoven, with the school saying there is an urgent need to train a new generation of writers and critics. More
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world's best university for architecture, according to new global rankings. More
