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Chris Grzesik FRICSChairman RICS Continental Europe Standards Board

Prof. David Mackmin FRICSSheffield Hallam University

RICS partners with Universities in continental Europe

• The only global member organisation of property professionals

• Offering an internationally recognised professional qualification

• Over 100.000 RICS members in 120 countries • 30 000 Student Members• 10 000 Trainees

• 500 accredited courses

• Head office in London

• Regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, New York, Dubai and Sydney

• 41 National Associations worldwide

RICS: property professionalism worldwide

RICS Europe

• In Brussels since 1993 for Continental Europe

• Over 2 500 RICS members • 1800 Students• 1000 Trainees

• 46 accredited courses and 3 partnerships (UK Universitiesoperating in Continental Europe)

• 17 National Associations

Continental Europe Standards Board

• Since February 2007

• For Continental Europe with continental European members

• 14 members (practitioners and academics)

• Devolution of educational matters and course accreditation

• In the coming months the CESB will focus on:

developing a “partnership” approach to replace traditional course accreditation for 2008-09

Entering into partnership with Universities

• A course validation system seeking to provide mutual addedvalue to the relationship between RICS and a University. In orderto partner with RICS a University must meet a series of standards.Then the mutual relationship is developed through annual meetings where common goals are set and results of the cooperation are reviewed.

Partnership Key Objectives and Principles

student selection : to ensure internationally respected standards of student selection on to RICS courses

research quality : to ensure that all students are exposed to the most innovative ideas while being taught

teaching quality and APC mapping to ensure that the curriculum is highly relevant to one or more APC pathways

employment of graduates and graduate conversion rates: to ensure that RICS has access to high calibre graduate output

What does it mean for the university ?

• no formal accreditation or re-accreditation procedures – all is confirmed at the annual partner meeting replacement of annual monitoring report with shorter threshold statement at least onemeeting of the partnership a year to discuss inter alia:

new coursescurriculumexternal examiner reportsconversion ratesRICS input to coursesmeetings with students