23rd February 2013, 08:40 AM
Perhaps the whole system does need an overhaul. It has long been accepted that a university degree does not qualify you for a job on the first rungs of commercial archaeology. For too long now degrees have lost the status they use to have being now a standard requirement for almost every employer. There is nothing wrong with learning for its own sake but now that seems to have gone. It's all about the Universities providing courses that generate cash.
Though recently speaking to a young person jut about to do a degree in archaeology when I asked them if they Knew how hard it would be to get a job in archaeology? They replied that it was going to be difficult to get a decent job of any sort so they might as well do a degree in a subject they loved.
Cannot help thinking that there is a generation coming up who are going to have problems getting good long term jobs in any field. Far more worrying than a drop in archaeology degree courses.
Though recently speaking to a young person jut about to do a degree in archaeology when I asked them if they Knew how hard it would be to get a job in archaeology? They replied that it was going to be difficult to get a decent job of any sort so they might as well do a degree in a subject they loved.
Cannot help thinking that there is a generation coming up who are going to have problems getting good long term jobs in any field. Far more worrying than a drop in archaeology degree courses.