How should British Archaeology be run

[Gilraen]

Train the trainers!!!!!! I have never got my head round the fact that those who teach under graduates ( and post grads) do not have professional teaching qualifications. How the hell does that work? Teaching is a skill that needs to be taught to those who provide training. Cost effective in the long run as those being trained might actually learn some thing.

Yes! Not sure what it is like now (any recent graduates out there?) but how clued up are university lecturers on how a commercial archaeology site is run (from a simple watching brief to a complicated excavation)? I was lucky with my Uni, my lecturers seemed to be quite clued up on basic excavation techniques, but I have heard some horror stories of some really famous names back in the day who couldn't tell their arse from a context sheet. But I guess they always had an 'old lag' henchman behind them to do all the real work! }