Working Hours? Do you ?

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Fancy Booklernin is fer your own time!

when working for Riksantikvarieambetet in Sweden we received something in the region of an hour a week of work-time to ensure that we were sufficiently up-to-speed in respect of the literature relevant to what we were digging in order to be able to start the PX process within IntraSis in an intelligent fashion. not the worst of situations in which to find oneself. moreover, it is to the employers' benefit. and as, Wax intimates above, this is the sort of thing which enables ROs to comply with their CPD requirements; adequate CPD support is, however, something i hear not all junior members of staff are receiving.

far be it from me to reminisce on the glory days of my youth, but i do recall being told by a member of post-ex staff at a rather large provider of archaeological services that they didn't provide training, when i enquired all those years ago. that attitude continued when i started what was then the Post-Graduate Diploma in Field Archaeology, and i'd find myself months out on site with no structure or anything (cos i hadn't been chosen to do the diploma course, despite there being a through-flow of such students at the establishment).

that sort of culture appears to still permeate the profession; and yet only a little while ago, with a colleague, i gave a CPD presentation to architects on the implications of NPPF for architects. architects clearly consider it worth their while to have some form of structure to their CPD.