17th December 2008, 07:30 PM
Quote:quote:Thanks.... pity they did not post anything here... or on the Facebookpage...It seems fair enough to me that the IfA's main means of communicating news should be via its own website. After all, there can't be many archaeologists in the UK that don't know about the IfA, and it isn't any harder to visit their website than BAJR, if you are genuinely interested in what they have to say rather than in an excuse to bash them.
Perhaps I'm not very imaginative, but I can't really think of anything that the IfA (or any professional body) can do to significantly alleviate the effect of the economic situation, so perhaps it is not sensible to raise expectations.
My own employer (around 50,000 staff worldwide, including a grand total of 12 archaeologists) have imposed a global pay-freeze; many of our competitors are cutting staff. The IfA can't impose a pay-freeze, that is down to employers, but I would be surprised if that doesn't happen in most units, together with lay-offs.
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