5th November 2010, 09:48 AM
a friend of mine - who is an academic and who runs a field school every year - assures me that it is not the job of universities to train up field staff, that's the units' responsibility, apparently.
the requirement to do 3 weeks fieldwork is window-dressing, but then again the courses are all 'academic' - no more Bournemouth 2yr diploma course - which my limited experience of people who had done that was of extremely competent and knowledgeable field-workers who were better equipped than my fellows at university.
in a situation where universities largely wash their hands of fieldwork, bar for a member of staff have labour to carry out their research, Ginger and Dirty Boy have only done what they could in the circumstances; that said 20yrs ago i was working every holiday break i could on site, paid and unpaid
plus ca change
the requirement to do 3 weeks fieldwork is window-dressing, but then again the courses are all 'academic' - no more Bournemouth 2yr diploma course - which my limited experience of people who had done that was of extremely competent and knowledgeable field-workers who were better equipped than my fellows at university.
in a situation where universities largely wash their hands of fieldwork, bar for a member of staff have labour to carry out their research, Ginger and Dirty Boy have only done what they could in the circumstances; that said 20yrs ago i was working every holiday break i could on site, paid and unpaid
plus ca change
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