25th May 2005, 02:23 PM
The last Antiquity (79:1F.) reported a comment from the floor at last year's TAG conference: the commercial sector is hardly in a position to demand any particular level of training since it will neither pay for it nor reward it.
To continue the engineer analogy: an architect has always needed an MA equivalent and more. There's a 3 year degree, known as Part 1 from the RINA exams that you are exempt from, then a compulsory "year out" (working, paid proper job, not a "placement") 2 years back at uni usually rewarded with a Diploma (DiplArc) - Part 2. Then you have to get a job and do Part 3 (Professional Practice) part time, before sitting your final exam and attending an interview to ensure that you are The Right Sort Of Person. All adds up to 7 years - and you don't get to call yourself Doctor or anything, but you can say you're an Architect. No-one else can. It is illegal to advertise for a "part qualified architect" or "architects, qualified or unqualified" or similar because there is no such thing.
By no means a perfect system, but one or two good points.
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.
To continue the engineer analogy: an architect has always needed an MA equivalent and more. There's a 3 year degree, known as Part 1 from the RINA exams that you are exempt from, then a compulsory "year out" (working, paid proper job, not a "placement") 2 years back at uni usually rewarded with a Diploma (DiplArc) - Part 2. Then you have to get a job and do Part 3 (Professional Practice) part time, before sitting your final exam and attending an interview to ensure that you are The Right Sort Of Person. All adds up to 7 years - and you don't get to call yourself Doctor or anything, but you can say you're an Architect. No-one else can. It is illegal to advertise for a "part qualified architect" or "architects, qualified or unqualified" or similar because there is no such thing.
By no means a perfect system, but one or two good points.
Today, Bradford. Tomorrow, well, Bradford probably.