SKY NewsNo scientists have applied for Priti Patel's 'best and brightest' visa scheme

[Borchester]

Of course someone is going to come me back with "pay isn't everything" and maybe that's the case, but I remember the professor of biochem at Cardiff, my boss at the time, his pal from his own undergraduate days, who was at the time I wrote head of the flour miller's and bakers research association, their peer from their postgrad PhD days who had emingrated to Atlanta to be the prof of life sciences there, and a chap by the name of Mitchell who was running have s own lab in Cornwall.

All four came to Bristol to hear me talk about my research.

The car park had my tatty 10 year old Morris marina, my bosses almost as tatty sunbeam alpine, prof Dodson's Merc, Prof Spencer's (the FMBRA man) bigger Merc, and the chap from Atlanta's MASERATI he had SHIPPED to the UK for his Sabbatical ...

This was 1981

The UK has the world's second highest number of Nobel Prize winners. In fact, since the highest is in America which has 5 times the population but only 3 times as many winners, then if we work it out smarts per head of population, the British are clearly the dogs bollocks.

And for this we pay our academics F@@@ all.

Because we don't have to. Academics always moan, but they come up with the goods regardless of how well they are paid.

[johnofgwent]

I have to agree the pay for such people in Britain is very poor compared with America and some European countries.
(British pay is bad at the lower levels in related disciplines as well.)

Of course someone is going to come me back with "pay isn't everything" and maybe that's the case, but I remember the professor of biochem at Cardiff, my boss at the time, his pal from his own undergraduate days, who was at the time I wrote head of the flour miller's and bakers research association, their peer from their postgrad PhD days who had emingrated to Atlanta to be the prof of life sciences there, and a chap by the name of Mitchell who was running have s own lab in Cornwall.

All four came to Bristol to hear me talk about my research.

The car park had my tatty 10 year old Morris marina, my bosses almost as tatty sunbeam alpine, prof Dodson's Merc, Prof Spencer's (the FMBRA man) bigger Merc, and the chap from Atlanta's MASERATI he had SHIPPED to the UK for his Sabbatical ...

This was 1981

[papasmurf]

Frankly, for the past 30 years a more prosperous future awaits prestigious prize winners in the states.

Even among the category of those professionally acknowledged but not actual winners, the funding and rewards are massively better there.

I have to agree the pay for such people in Britain is very poor compared with America and some European countries.
(British pay is bad at the lower levels in related disciplines as well.)

[johnofgwent]

No scientists have applied for Priti Patel's 'best and brightest' visa scheme

A fast-track visa scheme launched by the home secretary Priti Patel in May to entice Nobel laureates and similarly prestigious prize-winners to the UK has resulted in no applications in six months, it has been revealed.

Source: No scientists have applied for Priti Patel's 'best and brightest' visa scheme

Frankly, for the past 30 years a more prosperous future awaits prestigious prize winners in the states.

Even among the category of those professionally acknowledged but not actual winners, the funding and rewards are massively better there.

[GBNews]

No scientists have applied for Priti Patel's 'best and brightest' visa scheme

A fast-track visa scheme launched by the home secretary Priti Patel in May to entice Nobel laureates and similarly prestigious prize-winners to the UK has resulted in no applications in six months, it has been revealed.

Source: No scientists have applied for Priti Patel's 'best and brightest' visa scheme