Targeted on-the-job training to meet specific skills shortages in UK archaeology (including in academia and the public and private sectors) has been underway for some eight years now in the form of salaried vocational learning placements. Since 2006, the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), which represents professional archaeologists in the UK, has developed and supported organisations in the sector to deliver a new model for structured workplace learning. Aspiring to build capacity, CIfA has also sought to effect a culture change within archaeology by embedding the principles of sustainable training into everyday practice. To this end, CIfA has both coordinated its own scheme of workplace learning and supported complementary programmes run by English Heritage and the Council for British Archaeology (CBA). Both CIfA’s Workplace Learning Bursaries scheme and the CBA’s Community Archaeology Bursaries Project have been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) through the Skills for the Future programme. With completion in 2014, it is timely to consider the efficacy of these programmes in terms of capacity building and, moreover, to identify what lessons can be taken forward to ensure the sustainability of structured workplace learning in archaeology. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2015.
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