25th October 2005, 01:38 PM
Quote:quotelus we had time to be trained and work properly (depending on the Unit/project). My year on the MSC/YOP excavations with BUFAU was better training than I ever had in Uni.
Hmmm... Interesting point. Maybe the decline of skills and lack of proper training in modern archaeology reflect the end of the MSC scheme and not a decline in Uni training. I suspect that in general Uni training was always a bit rubbish (with notable exceptions), but that the MSC people had to be trained from first principles. Thinking back, the best training I have had was always from MSC Old Lags and never from the more academic types. The MSC people just had a much better grasp of the nuts and bolts of the job.