Breaking！英国AA自10月1日起可颁发学士与硕士学位

编辑：崔婧 | 2019.10.14 17:47

从2019年10月1日起，建筑联盟学院（Architectural Association School of Architecture，简称AA）迎来了其建校172年以来重大的制度转折时刻——AA获权授予其学生包括荣誉学士学位、建筑学硕士学位、文学硕士学位、授课型哲学硕士学位、理学硕士学位在内的诸多学位。

位于英国伦敦的AA是全球最具声望与实力的建筑学院之一。自其1847年创办以来，先后走出了一批批影响着世界建筑学实践及思潮的名家大师。然而，尽管拥有包含扎哈·哈迪德，雷姆·库哈斯，理查德·罗杰斯等在内的强大校友名录，但AA以往从未获得授予学位的权力。

AA一直以来是广大建筑学子梦想的求学之所。学位授予权或将改变今后赴英进行建筑学留学深造的格局。

以下是AA官网说明：

建筑联盟学院获得枢密院授予的颁发学位的权力。

英国最古老的独立建筑学院建筑联盟学院（AA）很高兴地宣布，它已经被授予颁发自己的学位的权力。自2019年10月1日起，AA将设立新的学术课程与学位授予计划，并创建一些世界上最具开拓性的建筑学课程，以塑造并建设未来。

学位授予权（TDAP）授予英国高等教育机构颁发学士和硕士学位的权利。世界各地的准学生可以申请AA基础课程（基础证书）、实验项目（荣誉学士学位）、文凭课程（建筑学硕士学位）和9个包含历史和建筑学批判思维的授课型研究生课程（文学硕士学位）、Projective Cities（授课型哲学硕士学位）和可持续环境设计（理学/建筑学硕士学位）等等。

AA校长伊娃·弗兰奇（Eva Franch）说道：“自1847年学院成立以来，我们从未停止在制度和学术上创造新视野。这是AA的一个重要里程碑，显示我们作为一个一向重视独立性的机构是如何成长和进步的。获得学位授予权标志着院校的新纪元。这对AA来说是激动人心的时刻。这一过程需要所有工作人员和学生做大量的工作。我想借此机会赞扬他们的这一重大成就。”

AA委员会主席维多利亚·桑顿（Victoria Thornton）补充说:“学位授予权认可了我们强有力的管理、学术标准、奖学金和教学水平，以及提供高等教育课程的环境。”

英国建筑师注册委员会（Architects Registration Board）、英国皇家建筑师学会（Royal Institute of British Architects）和开放大学（Open University）支持了建筑联盟学院学位授予权的申请。

原文如下：

The Architectural Association receives Taught Degree Awarding Powers by the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council.

The Architectural Association (AA), the oldest independent school of architecture in the United Kingdom, is pleased to announce that it has been granted the power to award its own degrees. As of 1 October 2019, the AA has the right to establish new academic programmes and degree awards and is working to create some of the world’s most pioneering courses in architecture to shape and build the future.

Taught Degree Awarding Powers (TDAP) give UK higher education institutions the right to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Prospective students worldwide can apply to the AA Foundation Course (Foundation Certificate), Experimental Programme BA(Hons), Diploma Programme (MArch), and nine taught postgraduate programmes encompassing History and Critical Thinking in Architecture (MA), Projective Cities (Taught MPhil) and Sustainable Environmental Design (MSc/MArch), amongst others.

AA Director, Eva Franch said, ‘since our founding in 1847 we have never ceased to create new horizons, institutionally and academically. This is a significant milestone for the AA and demonstrates how we have grown and progressed as an institution that has always valued independence. Receiving TDAP marks a new era for our institution; these are exciting times for the AA. The process has required considerable work from all members of staff and students. I would like to take this opportunity to credit them for this major achievement’.

President of the AA Council, Victoria Thornton added, ‘the TDAP process has recognised our strong governance, academic standards, scholarship and teaching as well as the environment supporting the delivery of taught higher education programmes’.

The School’s application for Taught Degree Awarding Powers was supported by the Architects Registration Board, the Royal Institute of British Architects and The Open University.