3rd February 2011, 02:01 PM
All of the staff at BA (around 40) were handed a redundancy notice but invited to reapply for 12 or 13 positions, so leaving behind basically barely a skeleton field crew. The position of the academic side of the university, the IAA, is now to concentrate more resources on the VISTA centre, which concerns itself with landscape reconstruction, remote sensing, 3D laser scanning, GIS and geophysics. As a result some of the postgraduate training courses, especially the MA in Practical Archaeology, have had to change a fair amount to accomodate this. However, we were reassured it will not noticeeable affect training excavations for undergrads, although i'm a little wary of this.