4th September 2012, 02:40 PM
Dont worry Kev the likes of the curators and the vast majority of university parasites wont let it happen. The only way would be through demand and supply, theres absolutly not reason why a unit would need to employ somebody who might know what they are doing and the numpties have found that universities will all take them on to do an archaeology course and they realy dont need to do any digging to get the degree, well scribble on a context sheet.
Surveying degrees are now three or four years they used to once produce surveyers from geography courses and before that they probably were produced by the army engineers Kev, but archaeology departments think that they can get away with a few days in a BA masters course. Still if it gets you the job then that probably says more about the job. Did they fit it in with a bit of baysian statistic, geomorpology and how to do genetic sampling as well, probably got it all into a one hour lecture.
Gosh isnt digging great, you never know what you will find, it must be so exsciting not knowing.
Quote:I think a case could be made for not needing a degree to dig
Surveying degrees are now three or four years they used to once produce surveyers from geography courses and before that they probably were produced by the army engineers Kev, but archaeology departments think that they can get away with a few days in a BA masters course. Still if it gets you the job then that probably says more about the job. Did they fit it in with a bit of baysian statistic, geomorpology and how to do genetic sampling as well, probably got it all into a one hour lecture.
Gosh isnt digging great, you never know what you will find, it must be so exsciting not knowing.
Reason: your past is my past