On the 14th of October we published a new five-year corporate strategy outlining our ambitious approach to regulation. Our new strategy will help us to deliver significant improvements in education and training, continuing professional development, and to how architects access ARB’s services.
To deliver these improvements, we will be investing in and improving our core regulatory functions, focussing in particular on our responsibilities in architectural education and training. In this regard we have announced plans to modernise the way that architects are educated, including a review of the current Parts 1, 2 and 3 model. The review aims to enable institutions to respond more flexibly to external challenges such as the increasing importance of safety and sustainability, and to enable new routes to, and therefore diversity in, the profession.
Other key pillars in the strategy include the introduction of a scheme to address Continuing Professional Development following new powers in the Building Safety Bill, and the transformation of processes and online systems for architects, moving steadily towards a self-service model.
The strategy also commits us to building on recent improvements in engagement with the architects’ profession, to ensure all its work is informed and influenced by meaningful involvement of the profession and other key stakeholders.
You can read the strategy in full here.
