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Greetings all....
RAO status is a name, not a cast iron assurance of quality or, an indicator that standards are consistantly met. It should be...but its not. Sadly.:face-huh:
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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What we need is rao volunteers and volunteers with rao status.
I typed in Volunteers Charter and it would appear that there is no central volunteer union.
Quite like this one as a start
http://www.beat.org.uk/bm/bm~doc/volunte...er-pdf.pdf
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I agree Troll that RAO status is not an absolute guarantee of quality control.
It is however an indication that the corporate body or individual concerned is willing to have their work both monitored and assessed by their peers......and that must at least suggest a degree of honesty and openness....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...
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How about a bajr fed volunteers Charter
1. We will undermine any diggers position when ever we can
i)starting by washing pot.
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1. We will undermine any diggers position when ever we can
i)starting by washing pot.
This could work... back to the old days I say!
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Agreed Mr Wooldridge sire.....its the monitoring and peer assessment phases that require an overhaul in order to bring the RAO scheme to the forefront. The RAO scheme in itself is a good step in the right direction but (as in all things IFA), high professional standards require a more vociferous monitoring regime-particularly in a competitive environment.
Would it be enough for Trainees and volunteers to simply agree to follow IFA guidelines? There are many non-IFA commercial units and individuals who simply state their acceptance of these guidelines in their documentation and this seems to be acceptable to many Curators.
Of course, a universal acceptance of professional standards across the board is the ideal. I will stick my neck out on this and say that I believe that acceptance of professional standards should be a requirement for all archaeologists working in the UK. It should in fact, be a legally binding requirement. This would only really bear fruit if said standards were monitored efficiently though.:face-huh:
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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deleted - please try to keep your posts relevant to the topic.
what?
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by troll
Agreed Mr Wooldridge sire.....its the monitoring and peer assessment phases that require an overhaul in order to bring the RAO scheme to the forefront. The RAO scheme in itself is a good step in the right direction but (as in all things IFA), high professional standards require a more vociferous monitoring regime-particularly in a competitive environment.
Would it be enough for Trainees and volunteers to simply agree to follow IFA guidelines? There are many non-IFA commercial units and individuals who simply state their acceptance of these guidelines in their documentation and this seems to be acceptable to many Curators.
Of course, a universal acceptance of professional standards across the board is the ideal. I will stick my neck out on this and say that I believe that acceptance of professional standards should be a requirement for all archaeologists working in the UK. It should in fact, be a legally binding requirement. This would only really bear fruit if said standards were monitored efficiently though.:face-huh:
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
This is probably straying from the topic a little (and I've seen what happens if you do that!) but it is possible for an organisation to not be an RAO but for most of its members to be in the IfA. In fact, for a small organisation, it would make more sense economically to pay for all your staff to join individually. However, you can't then stick the nice RAO logo on your website/letters. If an organisation is an RAO what proportion of its staff actually have to be in the IfA - from previous experience it appears to be virtually none, and yet they get the shiny logo. Hmmm.
Could the IfA perhaps have an offical logo for smaller organisations that says 'not an RAO, but all of our staff are members'. Might encourage more to join. Sorry, as you were...
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Of course, I look at the IfA webpage and they've already thought of that... so I'll shut up then.
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