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What do you mean, you don’t recognise my qualification? Understanding skills and measuring competence in archaeology

September 4, 2017

Life has kept me busy for the last couple of months so I haven’t been posting… or even clearing out my queue of posts that I wanted to get out. I will make an effort to get this backlog out. Here is a session from the CIfA conference we filmed. Session Details: Kate Geary, CIfA; […]

Archaeology, education and young people

November 4, 2016

Children and retired people are the bread and butter of public engagement. So it is not surprising to have seen a session at the CIfA conference on the topic but what was interesting to see was a session that moved into the realm of social issues with children. There are lots of kids based projects […]

There is a Crises in UK Academic Archaeology BUT it’s not the one you think

February 20, 2013

All of yesterday and now most of today I have seen this Guardian article making the rounds on social media sites, forums, etc.- Will the study of archaeology soon become a thing of the past? It was written by a historian, Michael Braddick who also happens to be the pro-vice-chancellor for the faculty of arts […]