9th August 2006, 05:03 PM
Did get bit carried away with last post [:I]
but it does seem to me a crazy situation to be in where our graduates are not trained to do the jobs they have spent three years preparing for!
I was relatively lucky to have left university with about three and a halfs months digging experience which left me a bit green but with a huge head start on many graduates - even this was not really enough though and i think that the universities have a huge role to play in the lack of skills in archaeology.
They should provide students with the basics and a student who cannot produce simple onsite drawings has been let down by thier institution. I think it is about time unis wised up to this. Applications are down due to the mounting debt and even when you land your first job the wages are too low to offset the cost of uni.
Its a pity archaeology cannot be taught in a way more suited to the changing nature of the proffession - for example as an apprenticship with work on site as a trainee and say one or two days a week in college :face-huh:
but it does seem to me a crazy situation to be in where our graduates are not trained to do the jobs they have spent three years preparing for!
I was relatively lucky to have left university with about three and a halfs months digging experience which left me a bit green but with a huge head start on many graduates - even this was not really enough though and i think that the universities have a huge role to play in the lack of skills in archaeology.
They should provide students with the basics and a student who cannot produce simple onsite drawings has been let down by thier institution. I think it is about time unis wised up to this. Applications are down due to the mounting debt and even when you land your first job the wages are too low to offset the cost of uni.
Its a pity archaeology cannot be taught in a way more suited to the changing nature of the proffession - for example as an apprenticship with work on site as a trainee and say one or two days a week in college :face-huh: