{"id":11984,"date":"2016-02-06T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2016-02-06T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T18:35:12","slug":"ihbc-in-the-news-sunday-times-home-has-ihbcs-president-and-with-nhtg-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11984","title":{"rendered":"IHBC in the news: Sunday Times \u2018Home\u2019 has IHBC\u2019s President, and with NHTG too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-11985\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IHBC_Pres2015-224x300.png\" alt=\"IHBC_Pres2015\" width=\"126\" height=\"169\" \/>David McDonald, President of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), was interviewed for an article on skills shortages within the <\/u><u>Sunday Times<\/u><u> Homes Section (31 January), while also carrying advice on sector employment from Cathie Clarke of the National Heritage Training Group (NHTG).<\/u><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>The IHBC related text of the article is as follows:<br \/>\n<\/u>\u2018It\u2019s as much a vocation as a job,\u2019 says David McDonald, president of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC). If your heart races at the sight of a medieval newel post or evidence of a Tudor midden heap, then this is the job for you \u2014 and it could pay \u00a332,000 for a local-authority conservation officer, rising to \u00a360,000 for a director of a specialist consultancy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A lot of conservation jobs were lost after the 2008 crash,\u2019 McDonald says. \u2018As the economy picks up, the absence of these skills is becoming more acute. This is only likely to get worse as infrastructure projects such as HS2 and Crossrail 2, which severely affect the historic environment, come online.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If you have a background or qualification in planning, archaeology, surveying or cultural studies, then you are well poised to benefit from a course in conservation. A full list of IHBC-recognised courses, including diplomas, postgraduate certificates and master\u2019s degrees, is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">ihbc.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the full article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-nhtg.org.uk\/news\/2016\/02\/01\/nhtg-features-in-the-sunday-times-article-about-the-skills-crisis-foundation-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHTG website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McDonald, President of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), was interviewed for an article on skills shortages within the Sunday Times Homes Section (31 January), while also carrying advice on sector employment from Cathie Clarke of the National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=11984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11986,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/11986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}