20 results
-
Student survey - Views on your learning provider
This survey asks for your views on your learning provider. The question topics include: its processes for handling bullying, harassment and discrimination the resources, support and information provided to you. It should only take up to 10 minutes to complete and the responses will be used to inform how ARB accredits qualifications. Your answers will be aggregated and anonymised, and the data collected through this survey will help us evaluate the effectiveness... MoreOpened 19 December 2024 -
Consultation on the Architects Code of Conduct and Practice
Architects play a vital role in shaping the places where we live and work. The public, our communities and clients expect that architects will deliver buildings and spaces that are safe and sustainable, and carry out their work ethically and with integrity. As the statutory regulator for architects, ARB has a legal requirement to publish a Code of Conduct and Practice (the Architects Code) which sets out the standards the profession must uphold. The Architects Code is fundamental for all... MoreClosed 12 December 2024 -
Consultation on Accreditation Rule 4.2: Degree awarding powers
In October 2023, ARB introduced a new approach to the accreditation of qualifications as part of our wider reforms to initial education and training. This new approach was formalised in a set of procedures, known as ‘Accreditation Rules’ which the Board approved on 18 October 2023. Accreditation Rule 4.2 requires that any learning provider who is applying to ARB for accreditation of a Level 7 master’s qualification (or equivalent) must either have degree awarding powers or have... MoreClosed 4 November 2024 -
International Routes to UK Registration for Architects
ARB is the professional regulator responsible for setting the standards for registration as an architect. Registration exists to protect the public, so that anyone calling themselves an architect has the appropriate skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours. ARB must ensure that standards of competence are maintained however professionals join the UK Register. We recognise, or ‘accredit’, UK qualifications that enable people to join the architects’... MoreOpened 3 October 2024 -
Consultation on proposed changes to ARB's General Rules and Registration Rules
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is a statutory body which operates under the legal provisions contained within the Architects Act. One of ARB’s responsibilities is to make rules to facilitate the delivery of the Act. ARB is now consulting on two sets of rules. ARB General Rules The General Rules exist as a framework to set out how ARB operates, with particular emphasis on Board and organisational governance, and the establishment of committees. The changes to... MoreClosed 6 September 2024 -
Professional Practical Experience Commission - Call for evidence
Part of an architect’s initial education and training involves gaining professional practical experience (PPE) through employment in architecture. ARB's independent Professional Practical Experience Commission is investigating the challenges faced by architecture students in the UK in seeking opportunities for suitable PPE and making recommendations to ARB to help improve the quality of training experience for architects. The Commission will conduct a comprehensive review of the... MoreClosed 24 April 2024 -
Architects Engagement Group registration
Every year, the architect’s profession faces new challenges and opportunities. As the professional regulator, ARB needs to understand those changes and respond to them. It is vital that we hear from architects to help us develop new approaches to how we regulate. By signing up to join the Architects Engagement Group, you’ll become one of the architects we can call on to feed into our work and help shape the future of architecture. Please answer the questions below to tell us... MoreOpened 3 April 2024 -
Fees for accredited learning providers: your views
ARB exists to protect the public and uphold confidence in the profession of architects. We do this by assuring the public that those on the Architects Register are suitably qualified and competent. Our legislation sets out in more detail how we fulfil this important role on behalf of the public. In particular, the law requires us to accredit (referred to in legislation as ‘prescribe’) those qualifications leading to registration. Between 2021 and 2023 we engaged and consulted with... MoreClosed 16 February 2024 -
International routes to the UK Register of Architects: Survey for Employers
About ARB The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions: To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects. We maintain a publicly available... MoreClosed 5 February 2024 -
International routes to the UK Register of Architects: Survey for EU qualified architects
About ARB The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions: To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects. We maintain a publicly available... MoreClosed 5 February 2024 -
Consultation on proposed updates to ARB’s plagiarism policy
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions: To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects. We maintain a publicly... MoreClosed 17 December 2023 -
Tomorrow's Architects: ARB consultation on education and training reforms
Architects play a crucial role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well. As the professional regulator, ARB’s main function is to ensure all those who are on the UK Register are competent. We do this in a number of ways, but this consultation is about a fundamental overhaul of the regulatory framework for the education and training of architects. This means we are proposing to change the way in which we ensure those who study... MoreClosed 10 May 2023 -
Consultation on draft guidance for a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme
ARB has been given new powers in the Building Safety Act 2022 to monitor the training and development architects carry out throughout their careers. When ARB’s new CPD scheme is introduced, it will be mandatory. All architects on the UK Register will have to confirm they have undertaken CPD on an annual basis, as a condition of their ongoing registration. This consultation invites views on the detail of ARB’s scheme before it is finalised and introduced. Draft guidance on... MoreClosed 3 January 2023 -
Proposed rules to establish an Appeals Committee
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions: To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects. We maintain a publicly available Register of... MoreClosed 9 December 2022 -
UK Adaptation Assessment
Introduction The ARB is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act, in 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions which include: Ensuring only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the architecture qualifications required to join the... MoreClosed 9 September 2022 -
Publication of disciplinary orders
ARB’s role and the Register of Architects The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act, in 1997. We are accountable to government. The law gives us a number of core functions: To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects. We... MoreClosed 5 July 2022 -
Consultation on draft guidance for Professional Indemnity Insurance
The regulatory requirement for PII As the statutory regulator for the architects' profession, ARB ensures only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the Register of Architects. We set the standards of conduct and practice the profession must meet and take action when any architect falls below the required standards of conduct or competence. ARB expects all... MoreClosed 4 July 2022 -
Initial routes to education and training
This survey closed on Monday 10th January 2022. The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the regulator of the architect profession. Architects play a vital role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well. ARB’s duties are set in legislation and require ARB to: Maintain the Architects Register, the definitive record of all UK architects Set the education and training... MoreClosed 9 January 2022 -
Proposed changes to the Investigations and Professional Conduct Committee Rules and associated guidance
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the professional regulator of architects. We maintain a Register to protect the public, so that anyone using an architect’s services, or a building designed by an architect, can be reassured that the design has been developed by an appropriately qualified person. As part of its role in maintaining the Register, ARB must take action where serious concerns are raised about the conduct or competence of an architect. ... MoreClosed 20 December 2021 -
Scheme for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
This survey closed on Monday 29th November 2021. ARB will now be analysing responses and will publish a report of our findings in 2022. The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the regulator of the architect profession. Architects play a vital role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well. ARB’s duties are set in legislation and require ARB to: Maintain the Architects Register, the definitive record of all UK... MoreClosed 28 November 2021
20 results.
Page 1 of 1