What are the changes?

While we've made some important changes and improved our GCSEs, we haven't changed everything. Here you can see which aspects of GCSE Design and Technology: Product Design is changing, and which will stay the same.

Following a successful pilot, GCSE Design and Technology: Product Design started teaching in September 2007. Since then, we've made some minor changes to comply with revised QCA criteria.

	What changes?	What stays the same?
Structure and content	Unit A554 now includes topics on sustainability, globalisation and the economics of manufacturing. In Units A551 and A553, the marketing presentation audience can now include end-users and consumers.	The course structure remains the same as the 2007 specification.