10th October 2005, 05:58 PM
Barnesy,
I agree that the universities could solve this issue themselves, but they don't seem to be doing so, so I was looking for a solution that did not depend on them.
I know that some unis do use placements; in fact, it was while interviewing students for a possible placement with my company that I first became aware of how badly the unis cover this area. In an interview for work with a consultancy company, none of the student interviewees knew what PPG16 was or had heard of either the concept of planning permission or Environmental Impact Assessment.
In any case, a placement only teaches you about one branch of the profession. If you do a placement with a unit, and then go off to work as a field archaeologist, you can do so without any real idea what a curator or a consultant is.
Any on-the-job CPD type training should complement rather than conflict anything done by the unis, but would still work even if they do nothing.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished
I agree that the universities could solve this issue themselves, but they don't seem to be doing so, so I was looking for a solution that did not depend on them.
I know that some unis do use placements; in fact, it was while interviewing students for a possible placement with my company that I first became aware of how badly the unis cover this area. In an interview for work with a consultancy company, none of the student interviewees knew what PPG16 was or had heard of either the concept of planning permission or Environmental Impact Assessment.
In any case, a placement only teaches you about one branch of the profession. If you do a placement with a unit, and then go off to work as a field archaeologist, you can do so without any real idea what a curator or a consultant is.
Any on-the-job CPD type training should complement rather than conflict anything done by the unis, but would still work even if they do nothing.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished