12th August 2011, 08:52 PM
The issue of enforcement is a red herring. How are British Standards enforced?
Anyone claiming to be interested in professional standards in archaeology should, as a start, demonstrate their commitment to a degree of professional behaviour by joining the IfA and signing up to its code of conduct. After that maybe they can start questioning the behaviour of others.
It is odd that so many 'blatant breaches of IFA codes and standards' can be spotted by third parties but somehow overlooked by those with direct contact as curators or others (who would also be in a position to note any departure from any standard, wherever derived, to which the work had been intended to conform).
Anyone claiming to be interested in professional standards in archaeology should, as a start, demonstrate their commitment to a degree of professional behaviour by joining the IfA and signing up to its code of conduct. After that maybe they can start questioning the behaviour of others.
It is odd that so many 'blatant breaches of IFA codes and standards' can be spotted by third parties but somehow overlooked by those with direct contact as curators or others (who would also be in a position to note any departure from any standard, wherever derived, to which the work had been intended to conform).