5th November 2010, 12:13 PM
I completely agree geodan.
"Sadly there aren't too many research excavations these days, and with all the cutbacks there aren't going to be too many academic posts for graduates to go after as an alternative, and they're mostly already occupied.... "
'Academic' or 'commerical' are not the only two things which graduate archaeologists do. I wouldn;t be surprised if more of the people I went to university with ended up as accountants, managers or lawyers or joining the services as became archaeologists. Or even became politicians like Nick Clegg. It is not the job of universities to train archaeologists to work in UK commercial archaeology. University education should be broader and more rounded, with an emphasis on transferrable skills. Vocational qualifications are narrower, with more emphasis on practical training for a specific career.
"Sadly there aren't too many research excavations these days, and with all the cutbacks there aren't going to be too many academic posts for graduates to go after as an alternative, and they're mostly already occupied.... "
'Academic' or 'commerical' are not the only two things which graduate archaeologists do. I wouldn;t be surprised if more of the people I went to university with ended up as accountants, managers or lawyers or joining the services as became archaeologists. Or even became politicians like Nick Clegg. It is not the job of universities to train archaeologists to work in UK commercial archaeology. University education should be broader and more rounded, with an emphasis on transferrable skills. Vocational qualifications are narrower, with more emphasis on practical training for a specific career.