Administration

Administration

The Programme is overseen by a Training Director who is responsible to the NAS Executive Committee. The Training Director is supported by regular contact with archaeologists with a high level of expertise and experience in working underwater, who also have a background in the teaching of archaeological techniques. All tutors, lecturers, projects, sites and individual courses are approved and assessed by the Training Director.

The NAS has a full-time Training Director, a Training Project Officer, a part time Training Officers responsible for Scotland as well as regional co-ordinators responsible for the South West, North West and North East of England.

The NAS Training Programme is partly funded by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Historic Scotland, and CADW (Welsh Heritage Agency) to respond to enquiries, to arrange and teach courses, and to develop all aspects of the Programme.


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The NAS Programme

The NAS Certification Programme consists of and 'Introductory' course and Parts I - IV which have been designed to comprise a series of components with a gradually increasing academic and practical archaeological content. Participants are required to give a gradually increasing commitment as they progress through the Programme, e.g.

  • NAS 'Introductory' course participants only have to attend the course.
  • NAS Part I participants complete a short multiple-choice assessment as part of the course.
  • NAS Part II includes the production of a survey report assessed against a number of criteria.

A brief description and an outline syllabus for each part of the Programme can be found in the training menu. There is no provision for awarding any parts of the Programme in retrospect for previous archaeological experience or qualifications.

A training logbook for the entire programme is issued to each NAS participant on completion of the NAS 'Introductory' course. All subsequent certificates, courses, practical experience, lecture and conference attendance can then be entered into this logbook. NAS courses will often be initiated by an individual or group applying to the NAS Training Office for a course. A convenient date and venue is then arranged. As the NAS Training infrastructure has developed, we have established a series of favoured and repeatable venues, where we have access to good teaching facilities and are often associated with archaeological centres or organisations, such as the Portsmouth Naval Base Heritage Centre which houses the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior and HMS Victory.

 

Training Menu