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Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Interior Architecture with Work Placement Year and Postgraduate Certificate in Interior Architecture

At its meeting of 27 October 2021, the Board decided that the above qualifications should be prescribed for the period 14 July 2021 to 1 February 2026* 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 set out in the Board’s Procedures, namely:

  1. Northumbria University’s Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Interior Architecture with Work Placement Year (four years, full-time) and Postgraduate Certificate in Interior Architecture (one semester, full-time) qualifications should be prescribed for the period 14 July 2021 to 1 February 2026.*
  2. Prescription of the qualifications shall be by reference to the Programme Specification – submitted as part of the application on 10 May 2021 – for the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Interior Architecture with Work Placement Year (four years, full-time) and Postgraduate Certificate in Interior Architecture (one semester, 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 Board.
  3. Annually by 1 February – commencing on 1 February 2022 – the institution shall be required to provide the Board with information of the nature set out in Appendix 2 of its Procedures to enable the Board to see that:
    1. All its 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;
    2. Adequate systems are in place to ensure that all the Board’s Criteria will be met by students for the period of prescription;
    3. The institution’s resources remain as set out in the application and are adequate; and
    4. 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 the Board its pass lists of graduating cohorts who have received the prescribed awards.

 

The Board was confident that:

  1. The course proposal – including the educational aims, the intended learning outcomes, the assessments etc – has 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.

 

* At its meeting of 27 February 2023, the Board agreed to extend prescription until 31 December 2028.  At its meeting of 22 July 2024, the Accreditation Committee agreed that the prescription expiry date of Part 1 qualifications should be updated to 31 December 2027 to reflect ARB’s published schedule for transition to accreditation.