Auteur: Welby Ings

Welby Ings is a professor in design at Auckland University of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts and a consultant to many international organizations on issues of creativity and learning. He is also an award-winning academic, designer, filmmaker and playwright. But until the age of 15 Welby could neither read nor write. He was considered « slow » at school and he was eventually expelled. Later he was suspended from teachers » college. Welby has taught at all levels of the New Zealand education system and remains an outspoken critic of the education system »s « obsession » with assessing performance. In 2001 he was awarded the Prime Minister »s inaugural Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.