9th May 2012, 09:33 AM
Sorry to hear that a council run unit is not able to compete in the commercial world. This probably the problem of having elected management as well as tiers of civil service and public service budget controlers in charge who just cant possibly understand what archaeology requires. I can only hope that they can find work with the other main council unit in the area. Its probably incompertent council management who has not thought of trying to get them jobs there or maybe the other council unit has its reasons. I dont know who got this recent job for an Archaeologist at Gloucestershire http://www.lgjobs.com/jobs/archaeologist-168. Presumably the advert meant Advisor. You can only hope it was for one of the ten people who have now lost their job. The news item seems to imply that a lot of these ten will be natural wastage and it does appear that there will be five left. What are they going to do? Will they be taking on new fieldwork? Good luck to everybody in Gloucestershire.
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