4th November 2005, 09:29 PM
Troll`s in trouble again.....
ok, I`m moaning about the standard of new graduates.I think archaeology undergrads in general get a p*ss-poor deal.Plenty of debt and complacent teaching to say the least.Plenty of grads walk onto site and feel as though they are drowning because the skills required are simply not taught-in some cases, not even alluded to.I`m on the side of new grads and point the finger unreservedly at the academic institutions.I feel that units could allocate training mentors for newbies rather than sit back and watch them flounder.That`s just rude.
I`m struggling with this Masters/no Masters thing at the minute-see thread "pastures new". In the context of prospective field archs-I think what I`m trying to say is simply this-get your degree and go out and do the job.A masters is a debt burden that has it`s place much later-either when a specialism fancies your tickle or, the bodies too knackered to dig anymore! On the Electrician analogy-I`m simply saying that I would hope that ex/practising field archs are the ones running field units. If one can`t even see the archaeology-one should`nt be making decisions on it.......
ok, I`m moaning about the standard of new graduates.I think archaeology undergrads in general get a p*ss-poor deal.Plenty of debt and complacent teaching to say the least.Plenty of grads walk onto site and feel as though they are drowning because the skills required are simply not taught-in some cases, not even alluded to.I`m on the side of new grads and point the finger unreservedly at the academic institutions.I feel that units could allocate training mentors for newbies rather than sit back and watch them flounder.That`s just rude.
I`m struggling with this Masters/no Masters thing at the minute-see thread "pastures new". In the context of prospective field archs-I think what I`m trying to say is simply this-get your degree and go out and do the job.A masters is a debt burden that has it`s place much later-either when a specialism fancies your tickle or, the bodies too knackered to dig anymore! On the Electrician analogy-I`m simply saying that I would hope that ex/practising field archs are the ones running field units. If one can`t even see the archaeology-one should`nt be making decisions on it.......