professional standards

[troll]

What answer best describes your perception/experience of professional British standards in archaeology?:face-huh:

..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)

[1man1desk]

I can't vote on the poll, because I don't agree with any of the answers offered.

My answer would be 'highly inconsistent - varies from very good to poor, depending on the following:
- the individuals and the units responsible for the work;
- the quality and detail of the brief/specification;
- the quality of the monitoring/enforcement of the brief/specification by the curator, consultant or both.'

A bit long for a poll option, perhaps, but that is what it boils down to.

1man1desk

to let, fully furnished

[gonetopot]

Entirely dependent on either the individual and/or the budget of the project.

The level of variation even within individual units is huge.

But credit to almost all project managers and directors for attempting to maintain relatively high standards in not always easy circumstances. If corners are cut it usually appears to be because of budgetry reasons.

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Troll,i've got to admit it was difficult choice between 3-4 and 5.But as you said "your perception/experiance" then it had to be...

[Austin Ainsworth]

quote:Originally posted by 1man1desk

I can't vote on the poll, because I don't agree with any of the answers offered.

My answer would be 'highly inconsistent - varies from very good to poor, depending on the following:
- the individuals and the units responsible for the work;
- the quality and detail of the brief/specification;
- the quality of the monitoring/enforcement of the brief/specification by the curator, consultant or both.'

A bit long for a poll option, perhaps, but that is what it boils down to.

1man1desk

to let, fully furnished

I have to agree with 1man, the options don't really express my opinions on the subject.

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Considering that there has only been 13 votes in 5 days either a lot of people agree with you about the choices or they're too apathetic to bother! such responses on polls make it very difficult to get a consensus of opinion when so few folks bother:face-huh:

[Curator Kid]

I'm with 1man1desk and Austin. I don't agree with any of the choices so won't be voting.

[vulpes]

Ditto.

[vulpes]

quote:conveniently appalling for the clients benefit

Oh, and further to this. Appalling standards benefit no one in archaeological or planning terms.

[Paul Belford]

Agree with 1man, Austin, vulpes et al..

Problems stem from the lack of consistency from place to place and project to project in all four legs of the 'curator-consultant-contractor-client' beast.