20th April 2005, 09:19 PM
Careful please... I like a good arguement... but it should lead somewhere.
I think also that the PIFA level and even AIFA levels might not represent what is actual grades. (strangley I know a curator who is PIFA and another who is AIFA... add to that several senior management figures who are AIFA and the number of actual diggers might be well under 200 out of 1660 is not whopping by any stretch. But then you are right... without being in the IFA then that number will not go up. So where are we ... as Invisible says... old ground (which is quite a good place for archaeologists)
The reasons for the antipathy for teh IFA have to be addressed - a reason to join other than being told that joining is the only way to make it change... the need to change and the will should be there first to attract people to a fresh and vibrant organisation. The Diggers Group is meeeting in Cambridge soon
23rd April in fact
http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/ic...p?page=151
So if you want to see change.. then it is there.. a seed perhaps... but it welcomes those who are non IFA as well as IFA.. so doors open... [:I]
I think also that the PIFA level and even AIFA levels might not represent what is actual grades. (strangley I know a curator who is PIFA and another who is AIFA... add to that several senior management figures who are AIFA and the number of actual diggers might be well under 200 out of 1660 is not whopping by any stretch. But then you are right... without being in the IFA then that number will not go up. So where are we ... as Invisible says... old ground (which is quite a good place for archaeologists)
The reasons for the antipathy for teh IFA have to be addressed - a reason to join other than being told that joining is the only way to make it change... the need to change and the will should be there first to attract people to a fresh and vibrant organisation. The Diggers Group is meeeting in Cambridge soon
23rd April in fact
http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/ic...p?page=151
So if you want to see change.. then it is there.. a seed perhaps... but it welcomes those who are non IFA as well as IFA.. so doors open... [:I]