4th July 2014, 09:07 PM
Wax Wrote:I am hearing on the grape vine that universities are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit students to archaeology degrees. And that partly as a consequence of this Archaeology departments in universities are being increasingly cut back. Are we begining to see the serious skills shortage that might up the wages in the profession?There are 41 UK places of higher education offering archaeology as a subject in the coming academic year 2014-15. Not sure that is any less than last year and indeed one college has just introduced a new archaeology course......The attached table doesn't give the number of students per course but one guesses there is an optimum number required to make the course viable. I am not hearing any rumours of a drop in numbers but there is certainly greater competition for those students with the highest A level scores.....and of course not forgetting overseas and mature students on undergrad and post-grad courses. Don't quite see the link between less students and higher wages. All the evidence suggests very few archaeology graduates pursue a career in archaeology, so surely an overall drop in numbers wouldn't necessarily affect the numbers entering 'the profession'....
http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co...rchaeology
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