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The RIBA’s recent announcement of education reform in architecture is welcome and a well overdue step towards change
and advice on preparing their portfolio needed for university interviews. Several come back during the summer for paid summer work, and several have actually been employed after sixth form to work for us full time and be sponsored to go to university. We also take students straight from school to sponsor their education and mentor them through this by getting them to work in a small group with someone who is part way through their RIBA Part 1, and with an associate director who will monitor their progress. We employ Part 1 students on a structured year out programme so that they can gain the experience required to complete their post degree work experience. Several Part 1 students decide to stay
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with us and complete their Masters/RIBA Part 2 part time so we agree a training programme/contract to sponsor them to complete their Masters/RIBA Part 2. We also get lots of RIBA Part 2 applicants that have been employed by practices that won’t give them the necessary experience to complete their RIBA Part 3 and use them as draftspeople. We guarantee them the correct experience and agree a training contract to pay their fees by a training agreement. We retain really good employees by doing this.
Saunders have greatly benefited from this approach, as students have often returned to us and become part of our talented team when qualified. I strongly believe that as employers, we can learn from the recent pandemic and of course Brexit: all employees and particularly those new to the profession should be given the best chance to thrive.
The RIBA’s recent announcement of education reform in architecture is welcome and a well overdue step towards change. I believe that seven years of study is crazy as a system, and unnecessary. It should be reduced to three or four years in line with
other degree courses, then two years’ work experience to full qualification. This will reduce pressure on fees and loan debt – which is especially daunting for those from less privileged and diverse backgrounds – and will encourage more diversity in our profession. The emphasis is also far too much on design during the degree course and needs to include much more about masterplanning, the design process, and technical and management skills. We see far too many students arrive to us as fully qualified architects but who are less useful than fully qualified architectural technologists whose training is much more in line with what the profession needs. Design is important and fundamental but should be part of a wide range of skills. These changes and a reduction in the course length could help remove ‘barriers’ to poorer students and students from diverse backgrounds, and help to produce good designers that have the broader range of skills the profession so desperately requires in the 21st century.
Martin Williams is managing director at Saunders
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