4th January 2006, 02:04 PM
Quote:quote:One could argue that some consultancies and even units comprise of less than nine members and achieve huge amounts every day.The IFA should`nt make grand claims if they are incapable of meeting them.
posted by Troll
Well, I don't think they make any grand claims that they don't try to meet - but I do think that you seem to expect more from them than they actually claim.
I work for a consultancy with 10 archaeologists, and we achieve a lot. However, what we achieve relates only to the projects that we are involved in (i.e. a lot less than 1% of what goes on in British archaeology), and is entirely funded by clients, as is all work done by units.
You want the IFA to police the whole of British archaeology - i.e. everything done every day by every unit, consultancy and curator in the UK, and you want them to do it funded only by the subscriptions of its members (although you are not willing to pay a sub yourself), and you want them to do it with fewer staff than my company.
I don't think there is valid comparison between what a company can achieve and what you want the IFA to do.
We have publicly-funded regulators in place whose job it is to make sure that the work done on their patch is done up to scratch - they are called curators. The IFA has given them a tool to help them do the job - the standards. Why duplicate functions?
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