All Arb articles – Page 11
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NewsPart II campaigner drops his appeal
Architectural assistant fears crippling cost of pursuing legal action
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Opinion
Global education
In our experience, registration boards are the main obstacle to realising any significant global portability for architectural qualifications (Letters March 18)
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NewsLeeds-based director fined for falsely claiming to be architect
Leeds-based firm SDE Architecture has been fined £600 after one its directors falsely claimed he was an architect.The city’s magistrates court heard that the unnamed director told one of Arb’s staff he was an architect, and added that he would be able to carry out architectural work on behalf of ...
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NewsArb’s ‘double standard’ challenged
The campaigner trying to get architectural assistants recognised as architects has fired his first legal shot across the Arb’s bows
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NewsRIAI chases Ireland’s 300 illicit architects
More than 300 people are trading illegally as architects in Ireland, according to a recent audit
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NewsDanish woman guilty of fraudulent attempt to register as architect
Fine for woman who falsely claimed qualification in home country
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NewsPart II campaigner awaits decision
The campaigner trying to get architectural assistants recognised as architects is expected to have his application to join the Arb register dismissed this week.
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NewsGovernment and Arb rebuff part II campaign
A campaigner battling for those with a part II qualification to be able to call themselves architects has pledged to continue fighting after both the government and the Arb rebuffed his attempt to force reform
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NewsGovernment blow to campaign to recognise part II 'architects'
The campaign to improve the status of architectural assistants has been dealt a serious blow after a government minister refused to review the current registration process.
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NewsArb ‘won’t treat McGrath as special case’ over part II
Challenge to title looms, as Cambridge waits to regain its former status
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Architect jailed for conning his client
An architect who conned a Cumbrian family into paying £6,500 for work he had not done has been sent to prison for nearly four years.
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NewsArb 'threat' to new association of Part II architects
The founder of the newly created Association of Part Two Architects (TAPTA) has complained to a minister after receiving a “threatening” letter from the Arb.
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NewsArb faces challenge to part II ‘injustice’
A legal precedent allowing those qualified to part II to call themselves architects could be set following an application from an architectural assistant to join the Arb register
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NewsArb fines architect £4,000 following 'aesthetic disaster'
The Arb’s professional conduct committee has fined Richard Lewis of Lewis Patten Chartered Architects in Hertford £4,000 following an “aesthetic disaster” on a project to build two detached houses in north-west London.
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NewsArb survives as Reed rues ‘missed opportunity’
RIBA president Ruth Reed has expressed her disappointment over the government’s decision to retain Arb as an independent body, a move that has ruled out the idea of RIBA taking over the registration board’s functions
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NewsGovernment will not scrap Arb
The government has confirmed the Arb will be retained as an independent body, following months of lobbying from the RIBA to take on its functions.
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NewsRIBA lobbies to take over Arb’s functions
Ruth Reed met minister to argue for registration board’s abolition