31st August 2012, 10:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 31st August 2012, 10:55 AM by Unitof1.)
Let's get it out straightaway you are teaching archaeological vanity to the vast majority of students who never intended to have anything what so ever to do with commercial archaeology even though you like to suggest that
For the last 25 years or so virtually all the universities have sucked the prperganda of archaeology dry to churn out a very cheap humanities degree (and I mean that as opposed to a science degree).
To compound this educational rip off, which is basically a rip off of anybody wanting to call themselves a professional archaeologist and particularly one working in the so called commercial world the universities have then been in direct and massively subsidised competition with their graduated through their so call commercial units
Yer right you give a monkeys go give them a mark
Quote:Universities are having to provide at undergraduate level a degree that meets the need of the would be excavator, wannabe geophysics specialists, aspirant finds specialists, people who want to be teachers, those who want to do a general humanities degree etc etc - it is a fine balancing job to cover all the bases
For the last 25 years or so virtually all the universities have sucked the prperganda of archaeology dry to churn out a very cheap humanities degree (and I mean that as opposed to a science degree).
To compound this educational rip off, which is basically a rip off of anybody wanting to call themselves a professional archaeologist and particularly one working in the so called commercial world the universities have then been in direct and massively subsidised competition with their graduated through their so call commercial units
Quote:Certainly we in Durham have our own commercial field unit who leads on our field training (I think the set up is similar at Leicester). I certainly think the obvious
Yer right you give a monkeys go give them a mark
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