Letter: Letters: Need for support

From MIKE STEVENSON

I can tell Simpson why large organisations use highly qualified staff
for mundane tasks.

The staff concerned are highly motivated, are paid relatively modestly,
and have no direct access to budgets. They will work until the job is finished
(unlike secretaries who clock off), don’t need extra holidays or office
space, and don’t take another National Insurance contribution.

As far as the NHS or the Universities are concerned, they are getting
the work done free, or nearly so, at a cost only to the PhD’s own time.

Don’t think the managers (who will all have secretaries) haven’t worked
it out.

Mike Stevenson Millom, Cumbria