4th May 2007, 12:51 AM
Beamo, as a current student I have to say that you would be hard pressed to find any degree that would actualy train graduates up to do what they actualy have to for the job. This is why Economics and Management students etc... go off on internships in their holidays and English literature students go to work assisting journalists. And this is also why I spend most of my holdiays off digging when I can. What i get taught for the other 30 weeks of the year is invaluable in itself for my understanding of archaeological theory and I wouldn't want to loose that in exchange for more digging time during term. It also does not help that a lot of training diggs charge the students to go on them (even a few compulsary university run diggs have started doing this).