20th February 2009, 02:38 PM
It's good that the story is getting some coverage, but was anyone else infuriated by the quote attributed to Mike Pitts:
"In the long-term the nation suffers because we're losing people who are [u]very, very cheap</u> and who are creating our nation's story."
I'm also not sure what qualifies Mark Horton to talk about it - apart from wanting to plug his own site. In Mike Pitts' British Archaeology article on this crisis, and Mark Horton's assessment of it for the Beeb, everyone seems to conveniently forget that the predicted job losses by the end of 2009 of up to 1,400 won't come from the academic sector and [u]probably</u> won't come from museums and curatorial, it's all going to come from the commercial field units... and then you're not talking a quarter of staff, you're talking up to HALF!
Paul
"In the long-term the nation suffers because we're losing people who are [u]very, very cheap</u> and who are creating our nation's story."
I'm also not sure what qualifies Mark Horton to talk about it - apart from wanting to plug his own site. In Mike Pitts' British Archaeology article on this crisis, and Mark Horton's assessment of it for the Beeb, everyone seems to conveniently forget that the predicted job losses by the end of 2009 of up to 1,400 won't come from the academic sector and [u]probably</u> won't come from museums and curatorial, it's all going to come from the commercial field units... and then you're not talking a quarter of staff, you're talking up to HALF!
Paul