ABSTRACT
The workshop took place in early September 2000 at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and it was funded by the United Kingdom Council for Graduate Education. As noted above, it aimed to discuss and debate issues relating to current bureaucratic changes in the higher education sector that may effect the provision of archaeology, and this included the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), especially as expressed through ‘benchmarking’, the formation of the Subject Centre for Classics, History and Archaeology, and a number of recent documents from British archaeology’s professional institutions expressing concerns and hopes regarding expected ‘outcomes’ for students of archaeology. To this end academic archaeologists from Britain were joined by representatives of the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA), the Subject Centre, Cadw – Welsh Historic Monuments, English Heritage, and the Society for American Archaeology. The discussion in the Workshop raised a number of themes and issues, a few of which we report here.
