23rd December 2012, 03:30 PM
redexile Wrote:Interesting - that does seem like a realistic way of doing it for archaeology, and there's a precedent. Has anyone ever mentioned this to the IfA?
The Construction industry scheme is based around National Occupational Standards (NOS) the same as the IfA NVQ scheme. I don't think therefore that much work would be required to create an archaeological training programme, but finance, getting blood out of the 'commercial' stone, is a bigger stumbling block. Mind you if the IfA membership as a whole were to vote that RAO status necessitated contributing a training levy proportionate to turnover, that scheme might actually serve a useful purpose.......
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