22nd November 2005, 04:06 PM
Yes, I agree that chartered status is important, but as I say, other professions no longer maintain any distinction. You can be a student or affiliate member (terminology varies) until you do whatever it is you have to do to be deemed a worthy member of that profession. That of course is what we have to decide in the case of archaeology - we seem to be agreed that a degree alone is not enough (as it isn't anyway for PIFA grade).
I guess it's no different to letting anyone join as an Assiaite member and becoming a full member on "qualification" - it's just the terminology that's different. The important thing is that there are no internal grades once you're there.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
I guess it's no different to letting anyone join as an Assiaite member and becoming a full member on "qualification" - it's just the terminology that's different. The important thing is that there are no internal grades once you're there.
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.