22nd February 2013, 07:07 PM
It is, as Professor Braddock says, the 'core and margin' conundrum that is most likely to hit archaeology course in UK academia. A professorial friend tells me that they estimate there might be approximately 100 archaeological applicants each year who attain ABB. If you accept that Oxbridge and London are probably going to take 75 or so of those, it doesn't leave many for the rest of academia to share out, certainly not more than an average of 1 or 2 each for the remainder of the UK institutes hosting archaeology courses. How long a university is willing to host a course that would rank so low in all government measures is open to question.....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...