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ARB’s £9k charge to architecture schools an ‘unwelcome shock’, says RIBA
The RIBA has reacted angrily to the Architects Registration Board’s (ARB) decision to charge each of the UK’s 60 architecture schools £9,200 a year to accredit their courses
Students
News about and degree show reviews of the UK’s schools of architecture, including the Bartlett and the Architectural Association. We also celebrate students’ work with the AJ Student Prize
PRIMA International 2024
An international student contest is being held for a series of three landmark new architectural installations at the Carrières du Boulonnais quarry in northern France [Deadline: 15 March 2024]
ARB to charge ‘crippling’ £9k a year to architecture schools
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is to charge each of the UK's 60 architecture schools £9,200 a year to accredit their courses
‘Outstanding’ young Welsh architects have opportunity to win £2,500 prize
Part 2 and Part 3 students in Wales have been invited to bid for a £2,500 prize to help progress their postgraduate studies or early careers
Astragal: Chipperfield gets down with the kids at the Design Museum
To the Design Museum, where David Chipperfield delivered a lively Conran Lecture on architect marginalisation and other subjects
A doorway to the profession: what is GCSE Architecture?
Now in its fifth year, the pioneering GCSE in architecture, run at a Doncaster secondary school, is proving increasingly popular. Anna Highfield speaks to Paul Plunkett, who runs the course
Bartlett and John McAslan report calls for 72,000 more social homes a year
The government should fund councils to build an extra 72,000 social and affordable homes a year, the Bartlett and John McAslan + Partners have urged in a new report
Finding common ground at the EASA Sheffield summer school
Laura Mark reports from the European Architecture Students Assembly, which this year took place over the first two weeks of August in Sheffield, with the theme of ‘Commons’
Student intake drops as fewer enrol for built environment degrees
The number of first-year undergraduates choosing to study architecture, building or planning at degree level has dropped below 9,000 for the first time since new classifications were launched in 2019
Bartlett scandal: Is the architecture school now safe for students?
It is more than a year since a damning report uncovered decades of bullying and ‘serious misconduct’ at the celebrated architecture school. Ella Jessel investigates what has changed since