Fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), our Chartered Town Planner Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship offers a route for new and existing employees to progress into professional planning and roles in related fields, funded by the Apprenticeship Levy.

Degree Apprenticeships are a new education route bringing together university study and the invaluable on-the-job training typical of an apprenticeship. Our aim at the University of Birmingham is to support participants with practical knowledge and understanding required for new and existing employees to progress into professional planning and roles in related fields. Our Chartered Town Planner Level 7 Degree Apprenticeship, aligned to the Chartered Town Planner Apprenticeship Standard, allows learners to gain an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning funded by the Apprenticeship Levy.

The programme exposes learners to a variety of learning and teaching methods including lectures, small group teaching sessions, seminars, student-led workshops and tutorials. The teaching emphasis is on participative approaches to learning that enable students to reflect critically on important current debates in the practice and principles of spatial planning in diverse urban regions. To provide a “real world” feel for the programme there are a number of planning practitioners who directly input into the programme and we make good use of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands as part of our overall “learning laboratory”.

The structure enables learners to combine the core modules and material in spatial planning with a specialist focus in fields such as urban regeneration, community based planning, economic development and urban resilience.

Employability

This programme is ideal for those who wish to gain a professional qualification that will enable them to pursue and build a career in spatial planning and related areas of regeneration, economic development, housing and transport.