20th April 2010, 09:01 AM
Well, it was only a suggestion, although Dino has pretty much identified the problem - the lack of incentive to join either the RAO scheme or the IfA. It's a bit chicken and egg, there's no incentive to join so no one does, so it can't be representative enough to have any real affect. A bit like unions! Why don't archaeologists have the basic sense to understand this? How do other professions manage to change things in their favour, by working together perhaps?
Oh, and in what way is the IfA not neutral and how would removing some of the more dubious contractors be selfish? Looking at the bigger picture it would be a very good thing, but clearly everyone's got better things to do than worry about that.
Quote:"frankly everyone's got better things to do with their time (like maybe some archaeology?)"- that seems like a rather bizarre and contradictory thing to say.
Oh, and in what way is the IfA not neutral and how would removing some of the more dubious contractors be selfish? Looking at the bigger picture it would be a very good thing, but clearly everyone's got better things to do than worry about that.