26th June 2009, 02:35 PM
The more training schools the better as far as I am concerned, if run properly and professionally. However, although the basic principles of stratigraphy are the same, tools, techniques and artefacts are very different in each and every country. As a prospective employer, a few weeks experience on a foreign training school is not going to make someone a likely candidate for a digging job in the UK. Furthermore, curators are increasingly beginning to request CVs of all field staff to show they have appropriate experience, with experience (rightly or wrongly) being measured in terms of work in the UK commercial sector.