Architectural education should continue as a five-year programme - but should change significantly in many other respects, says the long-awaited review by an RIBA committee chaired by Sir Colin Stansfield Smith. Out would go Parts Ⅰ, Ⅱ and Ⅲ, to be replaced by 'certificates of achievement'; in would come a fourth qualification, to be called an 'advanced professional certificate of achievement'. Formal postgraduate qualifications would become more common (for example a masters degree in architecture and practice), and it would be easier to combine courses, undertake the qualification programme over a longer-term period, and specialise in different areas. Entry into the profession would be tougher and take longer, but there would be more routes into it.
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