14th March 2014, 01:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 14th March 2014, 05:54 PM by Marc Berger.)
Hello Mr Wooldridge. I have read Chartered explained and their strategic plans and reviews and as you say they are not "changing" anything at the moment. Becoming chartered was reviewed as a small part of one of six priorities reviewed last year in http://www.archaeologists.net/sites/defa...ew2013.pdf. These other priorities include the want to be taken more seriously and to increase the cpd and professionalism.
They make no mention any where about graduate archaeologists of which this country produces about 2000 a year, as against an ifa membership of only a few thousand.
But if the ifa were to encourage graduates how is it that you say "so its unlikely that they have plans to accredit graduate courses". The ifa seem to say that they want to be taken more seriously as a profession and a majority of the current members appear to be graduates who then have worked as archaeologists before becoming ifa members as archaeological managers and public servants such as the example of Mr Hinton
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[/SIZE][SIZE=3]we have reviewed our NVQ assessment centre and developed and implemented a business plan. We have gathered case study material to promote the success of our bursary schemes (http://www.archaeologists.net/trainingtoolkit), and discussed the development of apprenticeship models with sector partners. We are involved in the Historic Environment Forum heritage skills summit and task force.
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They make no mention any where about graduate archaeologists of which this country produces about 2000 a year, as against an ifa membership of only a few thousand.
But if the ifa were to encourage graduates how is it that you say "so its unlikely that they have plans to accredit graduate courses". The ifa seem to say that they want to be taken more seriously as a profession and a majority of the current members appear to be graduates who then have worked as archaeologists before becoming ifa members as archaeological managers and public servants such as the example of Mr Hinton
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist