27th June 2011, 11:03 AM
Quote:I agree with you that universities should teach students about the commercial sector, in that it's a part of archaeology that some may work in, but I don't think that courses should be geared narrowly towards churning out staff solely equipped to working in that sector.
Totally agree, any more than English degrees should focus solely on training people to become writers or playwrights or whatever. We have kicked this around on other threads, and I think that what I ended up saying was that when 95% of grads go one to do things other than commerical digging, if you make the course too vocational and aimed at that one aspect, you would be doing a disservice to the majority of students.
In reply to the original poster:
Quote:People should be warned about this before deciding to go to University and studying the subject if they want a future!
Presumably you want this warning before you filled in your UCAS form... how would this warning be delivered, and by whom? I think that in the future, prespective students are going to have to do some careers research before they commit to a degree course.