20th February 2013, 12:04 PM
Carrickavoy Wrote:Until of course places are so limited that the production of diggers falls and then we are in high demand and the profession becomes economically desirable again.OR... entry-level archaeological training ceases to be the de facto university degree and becomes a more practical and useful vocational qualification?
It's pretty short-sighted to hail a reduction in the supply of entry-level diggers as a good thing in principle, unless every existing digger plans to never retire, die, go off & earn more money etc. It'd take a few years for wages to creep up due to a lack of labour supply. By which time commercial archaeology could be in such a hole with not being able to meet the demand for developer-led work, that the government probably would have legislated archaeology out of the planning process as unworkable.