28th June 2009, 01:21 PM
Its where I learned... 
and so did many of us
However.. the question is this... hotly contested it may have been, BUT... it seems (and yes I have physically been there - and yes I am an ex-YAT digger) that they are able to do the commercial job AND add extra.
I have to say that this is the point... not an either/or but an ADDED extra. I often bang on about the real need for students to learn on real sites... I often bang on about the public being allowed to get behind the herris fence to get involved or watch close up... well... here it is! integrating commercial with training, with education, with public. Lets remember that commercial archaeology started too much to stare at its own navel , so when the push came to shove we were without a lot of support... as we had kept the public at arms legths with a pompous, we are professionals attitude... think on!
YAT has been little affected by the credit crunch? I wonder why? YAT does not expand beyond its borders too much..? YAT.. strangely works mainly in... you guesssed it... York...
The staff there now... I remmber from my time there in the 80s and 90s... now... I wonder why that is?
I support this one..120% and hope others follow this model, rather than look at the commercial bottom line?
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi
and so did many of usHowever.. the question is this... hotly contested it may have been, BUT... it seems (and yes I have physically been there - and yes I am an ex-YAT digger) that they are able to do the commercial job AND add extra.
I have to say that this is the point... not an either/or but an ADDED extra. I often bang on about the real need for students to learn on real sites... I often bang on about the public being allowed to get behind the herris fence to get involved or watch close up... well... here it is! integrating commercial with training, with education, with public. Lets remember that commercial archaeology started too much to stare at its own navel , so when the push came to shove we were without a lot of support... as we had kept the public at arms legths with a pompous, we are professionals attitude... think on!
YAT has been little affected by the credit crunch? I wonder why? YAT does not expand beyond its borders too much..? YAT.. strangely works mainly in... you guesssed it... York...
The staff there now... I remmber from my time there in the 80s and 90s... now... I wonder why that is?
I support this one..120% and hope others follow this model, rather than look at the commercial bottom line?
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Mohandas Gandhi