5th July 2006, 05:26 PM
From Tom Wilson:
This is why I don't favour the Irish licencing system.
Under the UK system at present, a company (i.e. the archaeological unit) is contracted to do the work, and are responsible for providing a report. If Chartered status and/or Licencing were introduced, they could be required by law to employ Licenced or Chartered staff in certain defined roles - but overall responsibility would still lie with the company.
That would leave the Chartered or Licenced person liable only for things that are actually within their control.
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Quote:quote:If chartered status devolves responsibility for publication from the organisation to the individual, then what happens if the budget disappears. Things sometimes go spectacularly wrong, as most of us will have seen. I have heard tales of poor sods in Ireland reduced to writing sites up on the dole, just so they can get their chartered status back and dig more sites.
This is why I don't favour the Irish licencing system.
Under the UK system at present, a company (i.e. the archaeological unit) is contracted to do the work, and are responsible for providing a report. If Chartered status and/or Licencing were introduced, they could be required by law to employ Licenced or Chartered staff in certain defined roles - but overall responsibility would still lie with the company.
That would leave the Chartered or Licenced person liable only for things that are actually within their control.
1man1desk
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