23rd January 2011, 10:56 PM
Cheyenne Wrote:I seriously doubt that anyone who graduated from Manchester University would have a good solid grounding in the strategies and politics of a commercial unit. It was all airy theory and only 4 wks of compulsory practical digging. I was lucky that I did loads of volunteering when I was unemployed in the years before going back as a mature student.
i know how you feel being an undergrad at Manchester myself, but i think that not all hope is lost for the Manchester students, i was employed most of last summer, in commercial archaeology as an undergrad, its not the school so much as the students! but then again with near enough 10 years volunteering experience i am a little odd as a student! I maintain that if a Student wants to leave uni as a a freshly graduated archaeologist, then they should be volunteering at every opportunity, and well most of them have cracked the pub side of archaeology and are less focussed on the digging side! in most cases they only have themselves to blame! (i really hope that didn't sound to nasty!)