IfA Minima Debate - THE RESULT

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I think that I am on topic. The ifa is about being an archaeologist. Their fully formed archaeologist they would like to call a mifa. This topic whether there should be a minima is about mifas. Pifa and aifa grades are stepping stones to being a mifa. That’s their structure.

The IfA offers three corporate grades of membership: Practitioner (PIfA) grade is the first level of corporate membership; Associate (AIfA) grade provides an intermediate level and Members (MIfAs) represent the highest level of corporate membership open to those with the greatest level of responsibility and competence. Corporate members may be professional or amateur archaeologists and are permitted to use the relevant four letter abbreviation after their names.[SUP][3][/SUP] All corporate members have full voting rights within the Institute.

Heres the ifa load of woffle about what being a grade on one of these minima is

PRACTITIONER
This is our first level of corporate grade membership, open to those who have
undertaken skilled tasks within the historic environment sector under the guidance of
others, and have carried out responsible work under a level of supervision.
Practitioners (PIfAs) also
 have a good working knowledge of key aspects of historic environment practice
 are able to achieve tasks using their own judgment, whilst working under general supervision
 appreciate complex situations and are able to achieve a partial resolution alone
 see actions as a series of steps and recognise the importance of each role in the team
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ASSOCIATE
This is our second level of corporate grade membership, open to those who have
carried out, delegated or brought pieces of work to conclusion within the historic
environment sector, with some autonomy but without holding ultimate responsibility.
Associates (AIfAs) also
 have a high level of working and background knowledge relevant to their area of his-toric environment practice
 have considerable responsibility for their own work using their own judgment, but within an established framework
 cope with complex situations through deliberate analysis and planning
 see actions at least partly in terms of longer-term or wider goals

MEMBER
This is our highest level of corporate grade membership, open to those of the greatest
level of responsibility and competence within the historic environment sector with sole
responsibility to initiate, negotiate, carry out and/or delegate, and bring pieces of work
to a conclusion. Members are in charge of organising and running large, complex
projects from beginning to end, or in highly skilled, specialist work.
Members (MIfAs) also
 have authoritative knowledge and depth of understanding of the sector and their area of historic environment practice
 take full responsibility for their own work and that of others where applicable
 deal with complex situations holistically and demonstrate confident decision making
 have a high level of understanding of the overall ‘picture’ and see alternative

which bit might relate to any job description that fills in a context sheet on site. A pifa is a digger? enlighten me. I cant work out what you have been trying to protect or what crime a so called RO is getting away with or not depending if there are minima or not. I particularly dont see what mifas have to do with filling in a context sheet. Lacocks comments have so far come the closest to spotting that this subject is about management of archaeologists like hospital managers managing doctors rather than archaeologists managing archaeologists or working with them.

Right now adas are trying to publish my site reports and they are about to get my views any day now, might be your last chance to see anything of mine.