3rd December 2008, 02:05 PM
Posted by Kevin Wooldridge:
However, we are a consultancy, and archaeologists only make up around 13 out of 45,000 total staff worldwide. We are therefore benefiting from something set up and operated originally for non-archaeologists. I quite agree with Kevin that few if any archaeological organisations are likely to do anything like this.
However, that doesn't get away from the central point, which is that we can't expect University graduates to emerge as 'the compleat archaeologist', with all the practical skills. On-the-job training in some form is the norm in all professions, and will remain so in archaeology, and we have to accept that as part of our responsibility.
1man1desk
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Quote:quote:I don't disagree with a single word that 1M1D says....and his idea of a three-year graduate training programme seems a great way both to deliver and monitor skills acquisition. But where was the last time that anyone saw a 3-year contract dangled in front of an archaeologist of the 'old lag' variety let alone a newly-graduated field archaeologist.I can't take credit for the idea, I am afraid - it is something my company has been doing for years.
However, we are a consultancy, and archaeologists only make up around 13 out of 45,000 total staff worldwide. We are therefore benefiting from something set up and operated originally for non-archaeologists. I quite agree with Kevin that few if any archaeological organisations are likely to do anything like this.
However, that doesn't get away from the central point, which is that we can't expect University graduates to emerge as 'the compleat archaeologist', with all the practical skills. On-the-job training in some form is the norm in all professions, and will remain so in archaeology, and we have to accept that as part of our responsibility.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished