12th September 2012, 06:36 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:Idid ask earlier this year on this forum if students felt badly advised or mislead when they began their degree courses and the few replies suggested most students had gone in with their eyes wide open. I also happened to be working for the UCL field team in 2008 and don't recall any of the recent UCL graduates we had employed complaining about bad degree choice....The advice Uo1 has posted (I guess taken from UCL website) seems to make it fairly clear that many of its students find solace in careers outside of archaeology.
Thanks Kevin. A little harsh though! May I ask if many of your employed graduates were from the Egytian Achaeology course or general? My comment was really that the general archaeology programme had been offered a lot more careers advice then those on the Egyptian Archaeology. I didn't actually complain, but I do know that a good chunk of the 2008 grads did. But, there were several factors which might have affected this. Firstly that Jeffery's was very ill and is the coordinator, second that we graduated as the recession started, and third there is a hell of a lot of politics which does make working in Egypt difficult. I am not sure how much of that has changed since the political upheaval in Egypt, but nevertheless, the last couple of years have not been great. Maybe I am wrong...