At the last Board meeting on 11 February 2016, the Board 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 February 2016 until September 2017:

University of Sheffield
MArch Architecture: Collaborative Practice

It decided that the following qualifications should be prescribed from February 2016 until January 2020:

Northumbria University
BA (Hons) Interior Architecture with Postgraduate Certificate in Interior Architecture – Part 1

The Open University/Hull School of Art and Design
Master of Architecture M.Arch – Part 2

For further details, please see the ‘Qualifications’ section of ARB’s website, www.arb.org.uk/infomation-prescription-of-qualifications