At the last Board meeting on 17 September 2015, the Board considered an application from a body seeking to renew prescription of its qualification under the Architects Act 1997.

The Board decided that prescription of the following qualification should continue until February 2018:

ARCEX Ltd

The Final Examination in Architectural Practice at ARB Part 3 Level

The Board also considered applications from Higher Education institutions which wished their qualifications to be prescribed under the Architects Act 1997 for the first time. In line with its Procedures for the Prescription of Qualifications, the Board considered the responses to the consultations it had undertaken.

It decided that the following qualification should be prescribed from September 2015 until September 2019:

University of the West of England

BSc (Hons) Architecture

And that the following qualification should be prescribed from November 2015 to November 2019:

Norwich University of the Arts

BA (Hons) Architecture

For further details, please see the ‘Qualifications’ section of ARB’s website.