4th July 2006, 09:52 AM
Who would be the panel? The experience I have had in Ireland is that the panel was made up mostly of academics and as they live very much in a different world how could they judge "competance" by qualification? experience? or standing. Does this mean that all MIFA types would be exempt from interview. If so this creates an ivory tower for academics to sit on. An then what of AIFA there are a lot of these that direct and are perfectly capable archs. Would it be a case of im alright jack pull the ladder up. The quality of work archaeologist do should be overseen by the IFA or EH as that is what they are there for. In addition who would be responsible for the licensing EH or IFA. And if so would one be then superior to the other, tricky!
I think Chartered would be the best way forward say PIFA, AIFA, MIFA then Carch perhaps. As with engineering the individual would under go supervised CPD and follow a set period of training leading over time and from subject and site experience build up a competancy that can be assessed by an independant body seperate from IFA or EH and in doing so remove a nepatistic or lofty approach.
But I agree it is a tricky one but also at the end of the day lets get pay and conditions sorted first then the above bit later. Also with this in mind what of pay does this mean the developer would be paying more to a Carch than one not chartered and in that case would qoutes for work go up allowing the bigger arch firms to out qoute the smaller units as they dont have the salerys to pay Carch`s and what would the salery be anyway?
Close enough for a country job!
I think Chartered would be the best way forward say PIFA, AIFA, MIFA then Carch perhaps. As with engineering the individual would under go supervised CPD and follow a set period of training leading over time and from subject and site experience build up a competancy that can be assessed by an independant body seperate from IFA or EH and in doing so remove a nepatistic or lofty approach.
But I agree it is a tricky one but also at the end of the day lets get pay and conditions sorted first then the above bit later. Also with this in mind what of pay does this mean the developer would be paying more to a Carch than one not chartered and in that case would qoutes for work go up allowing the bigger arch firms to out qoute the smaller units as they dont have the salerys to pay Carch`s and what would the salery be anyway?
Close enough for a country job!