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Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Professional Experience with Honours

At its meeting of 30 October 2024, the Accreditation Committee decided that the above qualification should be prescribed for the period 21 August 2024 to 31 December 2027 under Section 4(1)(a) of the Architects Act 1997 for the purposes of entry onto the United Kingdom Register of Architects.

Prescription is subject to the Standard Conditions, namely:

1. The University of Westminster’s Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Professional Experience with Honours (four years, full-time) and Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Environmental Design with Professional Experience with Honours (four years, full-time) qualifications should be prescribed from 21 August 2024 to 31 December 2027.
2. Prescription of the qualifications shall be by reference to the Programme Specifications – submitted as part of the application on 9 July 2024 – for the Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Professional Experience with Honours (four years, full-time) and Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Environmental Design with Professional Experience with Honours (four years, full-time) qualifications.  No change may be made to the title of any qualification, or material change to the content so defined within a programme specification (allowing for normal course development) without first obtaining the written permission of the Accreditation Committee.
3. Annually by 1 April – commencing on 1 April 2025 – the institution shall be required to provide the Accreditation Committee with information of the nature set out in its Procedures to enable the Committee to see that:
   i. All Criteria and the relevant requirements set out in Article 46 (or Article 47) of the Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive [2005/36/EC] have been attained by all students awarded the prescribed qualifications;
   ii. Adequate systems are in place to ensure that all the Board’s Criteria will be met by students for the period of prescription;
   iii. The institution’s resources remain as set out in the application and are adequate; and
   iv. All of the factors referred to in Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of the Procedures continue to be demonstrated, and any conditions of prescription continue to be met.
4. The institution will ensure that appropriate procedures will be maintained so that all students undertaking a prescribed qualification are fully informed of the extent of the application of that qualification to entitlement to registration as an architect in circumstances in which the student lacks a required antecedent qualification, e.g. Part 2 without Part 1.
5. Following each and every set of examinations, the institution shall be required to submit to ARB its pass lists of graduating cohorts who have received the prescribed awards.

The Committee was confident that:

1. The course proposals – including the educational aims, the intended learning outcomes, the assessments etc – have been designed with the clear aim of ensuring that all those who receive the qualifications will have met all the Criteria;
2. Systems are in place to ensure that all Criteria will be met by all students receiving the qualifications for the period of prescription; and
3. The institution has adequate resources to maintain and, where appropriate, increase the achievements of students meeting all the Criteria.