SCIENCE CAREERS: ARCHAEOLOGIST

Have you ever considered archaeology as a career? Here are some interesting facts about archaeology that could make up your mind!

- Archaeologists study human civilisations that lived in the past through the discovery and analysis of the things they left behind, this includes artifacts from millions of years ago right up to things that have been developed in very recent times.

- Archaeology is so important because there are in fact no written records for 99% of human history, archaeology can help to reduce this percentage.

- Archaeology has helped and still does help us to understand how humans have evolved and also how different cultures have developed. An archaeologist would survey, excavate and analyse data to help us understand these aspects of the past (as well as many others).

- Archaeology is a varied discipline that can involve aspects of art history, classics, physics, chemistry and geography amongst other fields. If these aspects appeal to you - archaeology could may well be a suitable career for you.

- If you want to become an archaeologist, it would be a good idea to study subjects such as statistics, geography and geology or history.

Tackling Youth Unemployment - Vocational Training

For the sake of young job seekers standing a better chance of securing work, they need to be better educated on the variety of options that are available to them after leaving school – this means looking at alternatives to conventional study.

Vocational training, as an alternative pathway into work, is very often overlooked. However, it is an extremely valuable one that should definitely be considered. Vocational students can learn skills quickly and are able to start looking for work within weeks or months after qualifying, as opposed to years.

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