With last week's news that Arb is considering a review of the rules governing prospective architects' admission to the register, a further step has been taken in the slow but seemingly inexorable journey towards the overhaul of a system of architectural education that has seen little structural change in over 50 years. There is good reason to believe that the five recent graduates who our jury has selected as the best diploma students of 2013 are among the last of a breed. All have jumped through the hoops of part Ⅰ and Ⅱ in the tried and tested manner and, luckily for them, managed to embark on their education early enough so as not to be lumbered by the recent hike in student fees. Their successors won't be so fortunate.
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