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he cold reality of where the Government is prepared to make quick savings to fund its wide and ambitious ‘growth’ plans hit the architectural education sector recently.


Although it was long-expected, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson’s cutting all funding of ‘Level 7’ i.e. Masters-level apprenticeships remains a disproportionate shock to the profession. Most students seeking to qualify to enter via this route will see their funding options removed.


Phillipson was accused of ‘fudging’ the decision, attempting to spin it as a positive by exempting 16-21 year olds in Level 7 apprenticeships or those already on apprentice schemes, and saying that the funding would be moved to ‘lower levels’ of apprenticeships. However, the further education sector responded to the move saying that the exempted age group was largely irrelevant, as fewer than 10% of providers running Level 7 schemes were enrolling students under the age of 21.


Mandy Crawford-Lee, chief executive of the University Vocational Awards Council called the 16-21 age restriction “ridiculous, daft and somewhat disingenuous,” and said it was “driven by political posturing and positioning.”


According to a survey by Further Education Week, there were no under 19 Level 7 apprenticeships underway in 2023/24 (students doing integrated degrees). Of the total 251 apprenticeships, 182 were taken up by students aged between 19 and 24.


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Looking forward to hopefully more progress on some sensible regulation, as opposed to depressing defunding, has anyone seen Part Z of the Building Regulations recently? A few weeks back, RIBA published an online article entitled ‘How can architects help reinvigorate support for Part Z,’ which not only suggests that the proposed amendment to the regulations is currently buried in the long grass, but also that support for it has been drowned out by a hundred other priorities.


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However, in addition to the voices from RIBA, Fielden Clegg Bradley, Landsec and the Association for Sustainable Building Products in the artcle, the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) also voiced its support for the carbon reporting-centred Part Z, which it’s hoped will soon reemerge in Parliament. It is essential that such a lever is produced to give full and necessary focus to specifi ying for ‘whole life’ carbon in construction, and there is nothing else currently mandating a focus on embodied carbon in projects.


Part Z is ‘only’ embodied carbon, but even that would be a huge step forward. James Parker, Editor


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