30th March 2014, 08:20 AM
Tool Wrote:I'm actually more than a little concerned how little an archaeology degree does prepare people for commercial fieldwork. I'm not sure that academia has caught up with the harsh reality that if you want to dig, you'll most likely have to take the construction industry shilling. But that's also one of my complaints about the IfA...Don't quite see how the IfA get dragged into this. From its inception the IfA has recognized 'experience' as a valid criteria for accredited membership. It is not and never has been an exclusively graduate based institute. My disagreement with the 'Archaeologist formerly Known As' in this thread, is his assertion that the IfA should become an exclusively graduate based organisation. I think that would be a bad idea....
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