Cost of remaining on register will jump to £149 next year
The Arb has announced what is thought to be the biggest single hike in the retention fee in its history.
The cost of remaining on the register next year will rise £30 to £149.
It comes on top ofthis year’s inflation-busting 8% rise, up from £111 in 2020.
Arb attributed that rise, the first in two years, to the extra workload caused by Brexit and regulation changes.
今天，首席执行官休·辛普森表示，25%的增长是必要的，以资助一种“大胆而雄心勃勃的”监管方式，这将在教育和培训、CPD以及建筑师如何获得Arb的服务方面带来“显著改善”。
The regulator also published afive-year strategytoday outlining plans to beef up its CPD provision following new powers in the Building Safety Bill, and detailing its intention –announced earlier this month– to radically overhaul the three-part education system and allow new routes to qualification that would improve diversity in the profession.
Its plans also include moving to a “self-service” system where architects can update their own details on the register, saving many hours of staff’s time in the future.
The body also pledged to improve its engagement with architects to ensure its works was “influenced by meaningful involvement of the profession and other key stakeholders”.
Simpson said: “Arb’s new corporate strategy commits us to an ambitious programme of work over the next five years. We will deliver improvements in all our core services including registration and applications, we will overhaul our prescribed examination to make it more proportionate and reduce unnecessary barriers to entry for international architects, and we will review our code of conduct and practice.”
He said £149 was low compared to the fees charged by other professional regulators in the UK.
“Arb recognises the impact this will have, particularly for newly qualified architects, and the board has therefore agreed to freeze the £35 application fee which is significantly below the processing costs,” he added.
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Arb’s chair, Alan Kershaw, said it was important that the body played its part in supporting a new culture of safety across the whole of the built environment.
他说:“我们正在设计的新的持续专业进修计划，将会着重鼓励建筑师思考他们的发展需要，并加以解决。”“我们的策略阐述了我们将如何以有效和适当的方式做到这一点，而不会给行业带来不必要的负担。
“The scale of the modernisation programme we’ve already launched for the initial education and training of architects reflects our ambition to make Arb a thoroughly effective regulator, responding to the needs of the public and the profession.”
Postscript
The Arb has announced the biggest single hike in the retention fee in its history.
The cost of remaining on the register next year will rise £30 to £149.
It follows this year’s inflation-busting 8% rise, up from £111 in 2020.
Arb attributed that rise, the first in two years, to the extra workload caused by Brexit and regulation changes.
今天，首席执行官休·辛普森表示，25%的增长是必要的，以资助一种“大胆而雄心勃勃的”监管方式，这将在教育和培训、CPD以及建筑师如何获得Arb的服务方面带来“显著改善”。
The regulator also published a five-year strategy today outlining plans to beef up its CPD provision following new powers in the Building Safety Bill, and detailing its intention – announced earlier this month – to radically overhaul the three-part education system and allow new routes to qualification that would improve diversity in the profession.
Its plans also include moving to a “self-service” system where architects can update their own details on the register, saving many hours of staff’s time in the future.
The body also pledged to improve its engagement with architects to ensure its works was “influenced by meaningful involvement of the profession and other key stakeholders”.
Simpson said: “Arb’s new corporate strategy commits us to an ambitious programme of work over the next five years. We will deliver improvements in all our core services including registration and applications, we will overhaul our prescribed examination to make it more proportionate and reduce unnecessary barriers to entry for international architects, and we will review our code of conduct and practice.”
He said £149 was low compared to the fees charged by other professional regulators in the UK.
“Arb recognises the impact this will have, particularly for newly qualified architects, and the board has therefore agreed to freeze the £35 application fee which is significantly below the processing costs,” he added.
Arb’s chair, Alan Kershaw, said it was important that the body played its part in supporting a new culture of safety across the whole of the built environment.
他说:“我们正在设计的新的持续专业进修计划，将会着重鼓励建筑师思考他们的发展需要，并加以解决。”“我们的策略阐述了我们将如何以有效和适当的方式做到这一点，而不会给行业带来不必要的负担。
“The scale of the modernisation programme we’ve already launched for the initial education and training of architects reflects our ambition to make Arb a thoroughly effective regulator, responding to the needs of the public and the profession.”
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