The AIBC remains committed to making the internship experience as meaningful and fulfilling as possible. Part of this commitment is to remove unwarranted barriers to registration as a fully fledged architect. We remain concerned at the growing pool of interns and the relatively low conversion rate from intern to architect. While this phenomenon is not unique to the AIBC — it appears to be occurring across North America — we remain undeterred in our search for solutions.
The AIBC has surveyed the IA and MAIBC community on a range of possible contributing factors and has undertaken steps to address some of those factors. However, more work clearly needs to be done. We would like to host a series of dedicated focus group sessions to consider the full range of issues impacting internship (from education through to state of practice) as well as possible solutions for consideration by the AIBC Council and its national counterparts. If you are interested in representing the IA community as part of a focus group, please contact Jerome Marburg, Director of Registration & Licensing and General Counsel, with an expression of interest and your current CV. We hope to select a number of IAs representing the full spectrum of practice areas and conditions. Results from the focus groups will be posted on this blog for consideration and comment by all.
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this is a joke. i've been hearing about council's "concern" for this issue for five years, and absolutely nothing has happened on this issue at all, ever. if AIBC are so concerned on this issue then why are they the ONLY association of architecture in canada which is not adopting ExAC?
ReplyDeletebottom line is aibc would never do anything to shrink the cheap labour pool of intern architects that provide employees to the handful of established firms that do 90% of the work here. providing more licenses is not in the (short-term) interest of the segment of the profession that currently holds power. this is why nothing has happened on this issue and never will. AIBC would rather spend its time helping out "building designers" and technologists get their careers off the ground.
interns, look out for yourselves, AIBC is not looking out for you.