27th September 2012, 01:56 PM
Jack Wrote:I have no previous experience of chartered organisations, nor do I fully understand what one is.
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.
Of course! (grin) but such a benevolent dictator would be loved by his people}
Sorry, I assumed from your comment that your experience of chartered organisations was some, not none. In which case it slightly invalidates any comment you make. 'I don't know anything about chartered organisations, but I don't like them'. As Prentice says, you pay your taxes you get to vote although it's obviously more complicated than that.
I don't understand what chartered status would mean either, which is what slightly worries me, perhaps just not in the same way as it bothers you. I doubt very much that the IfA would be able to 'gain control of the industry' just like chartered architects and surveyors have not pushed out everyone else. My main concern with the IfA is that this seems a waste of effort given the other problems of pay and conditions within archaeology.