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Susanne Osthoff, the 43-year-old archaeologist and aid worker who was abducted and then freed in Iraq recently, has denied she said she wanted to return to the war zone. read
The Parliamentary Culture, Media and
Sport Committee has announced a wide-
ranging inquiry into the heritage sector.. read
Norfolk County Council is planning to privatize its archaeology unit. NAU will be taken over by NPS Property Consultants Ltd.. read
We never thought it would come to this. WHS trowels used to be indestructible but is this a thing of the past... read
Can you picture his face? Your site director turns up to work on Monday to find Stonehenge has appeared on his site ... read
The bit of wall that has caused all the fuss is not in fact part of the scheduled
monument. The boundary of the SAM is the northern boundary of the A45 road
corridor. Works were done within the SAM to my satisfaction under scheduled
monument consent.
Glyn Coppack,
EH Inspector of Ancient Monuments
I feel I ought to correct the misapprehension that a masters degree means
you'll automatically get a job in archaeology. I've got one and strangely
enough, I've left the profession because I couldn't get a job. My husband
also has a masters. He does have a supervisor job, but it took him two and
a half years to get it and I suspect that the promotion actually relied more
upon his ten years digging experience than his masters. Oh, and he takes home
less than UKP270 a week after tax.
So by accepting promotion, he has become lower middle class (C1) rather than
skilled working class (C2). Does this mean that he is now a working class
traitor? And what about all the other people that I know that have masters
degrees but poorly paid jobs?
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