"U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report"
"House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies"
science.org/content/article/u-…
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"U.K. science sector is ‘bleeding to death,’ lawmakers say in report"
"House of Lords committee urges government to stem exodus of science and technology companies"
science.org/content/article/u-…
You don't say.
Albert Cardona
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •"Together with visa application fees, scientists hoping to move to the U.K. face paying more than £20,000 up front for a family of four, 17 times more than in comparable countries, which makes it challenging to recruit talent."
Combined with abysmally low salaries and high costs of living, well, we are past "urgent action needed". Bring on desperate measures instead.
#UK #academia
Albert Cardona
in reply to Albert Cardona • • •To further add: for a foreign national, the minimum salary is now around 40k/year, given restrictions imposed by work visa requirements. Yet academic scientific research depends absolutely on international applicants, since the talent pool is the whole world, and ability is homogenously distributed (opportunity is not).
So now UK academia is bound to either select applicants from a much smaller pool, and one –the national– were most would rather work in a company and make better money, or pay foreign applicants, even for entry-level research assistant positions, the equivalent of an assistant professor salary.
The issue is not with 40k being too much. The issues are instead that grants are too small to account for the salaries now required for work visas, and that entry-level professors' pay is abysmally low.
If the intent with such policy was that nationals would be favoured in recruitment decisions over international ones, that is a massive shot on the UK's academic foot. Like volcano-sized.
It is also deeply offensive: "we recruited you becau
... Show more...To further add: for a foreign national, the minimum salary is now around 40k/year, given restrictions imposed by work visa requirements. Yet academic scientific research depends absolutely on international applicants, since the talent pool is the whole world, and ability is homogenously distributed (opportunity is not).
So now UK academia is bound to either select applicants from a much smaller pool, and one –the national– were most would rather work in a company and make better money, or pay foreign applicants, even for entry-level research assistant positions, the equivalent of an assistant professor salary.
The issue is not with 40k being too much. The issues are instead that grants are too small to account for the salaries now required for work visas, and that entry-level professors' pay is abysmally low.
If the intent with such policy was that nationals would be favoured in recruitment decisions over international ones, that is a massive shot on the UK's academic foot. Like volcano-sized.
It is also deeply offensive: "we recruited you because we couldn't afford to hire someone from overseas." What could possibly go wrong. There will be unintended consequences.
#academia