23rd October 2008, 11:52 AM
Quote:quote:Hopefully something will be done about 'away jobs', that seems one of the most pressing issues to me, along with training which I feel is the crux issue. Until a system of training and experience/skill recognition gets sorted, and is tied in to universities and units, it will all carry on as it does now. The pyramid of experience will continue to be as skewed as it is, with fresh faces every summer desperate for work, but with no effective training, and the good people leaving because they are fed up at being paid the same and being taken for granted. It's just unfortunate that so many units assume that as long as they have a couple of old lags, they can get sites dug, as so much of archaeology is just emptying holes and putting the pretty things in bags.
thank you bob.. an often mentioned problem... and as gorilla says.. perhaps talking gets us nowhere.. what to do.. and how to do it... ie.. CPD and NVQ are all well and good, but how do they translate into benefits? :face-thinks:
"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers