RSA's under threat

[mercenary]

The grapevine has suggested that the new target for English Heritage senior management cost cutting exercises is the Regional Science Advisors. These individulas actually provide a useful service to the commercial sector, unlike much of the quango.

It begs the question what EH senior managers think the organization does, that they can remove one of the few useful services to the outside world?

[Curator Kid]

quote:Originally posted by mercenary

It begs the question what EH senior managers think the organization does, that they can remove one of the few useful services to the outside world?

Well, they've removed most of the other useful services that they used to offer. Unless of course you're interested in acquiring uninformative but glossy posters for a nice day trip out, or would like to stay in one of the freshly tarted up historic properties for a dirty weekend.

[oldgirl]

I agree with some of the sentiment, but I think there are other parts of EH that are also very useful. The NMR leaps to mind......

I would suspect that this is not cost cutting for the sake of it, and might have something to so with the draconian level of cuts to the EH budget.

And no, I don't work for EH and never have!

[m300572]

I would agree with oldgirl that its a budgetting exercise - most public service bodies are being crucified in the latest public spending round (we, Natural England, are looking to lose about 150 staff - fortunately most of the historic environmnet work is done within the RDPE which is EU money but it will have knock on effects.