IfA - A Chartered Institute

[Jack]

In your previous experience of chartered organisations exactly what percentage of them were free to join?

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I have no previous experience of chartered organisations, nor do I fully understand what one is.

....<snip>...Your main objection therefore seems to be one along the lines of 'I'd happily join IfA if it were run by Stalin and the Politburo'......we live in strange times!!

No, I meant I'd happily join the IfA if it was free.............I'm a skin flint..........and I object to the possibility of, If IFA gained control of the industry through handing out charteredness it would end up that people would have to pay for the right to work as an archaeologist.

Also, everyone may have their say in the IfA in some way or other............but in such oilgarchies this is just an illusion of power.

from sainthood to deity in one breath and tinpot dictator in the next - either way the statues will be toppled and who would buy his tools?

Of course! (grin) but such a benevolent dictator would be loved by his people}