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RSB comments on PM's plan to 'cement the UK as a science superpower' by shaking up immigration rules for scientists
"It is not enough for the UK to be a possible destination; we must continue to be a popular one,” is at the heart of a response from the RSB to the Prime Minister’s new plans to introduce a fast-track visa route for scientists. It is not enough for the...
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RSB responds to new fast-track government visa scheme for ‘top scientists’
The Government has announced the introduction of a new visa scheme promising “fast tracked entry into the UK” for scientists and researchers. The Government has announced the introduction of a new visa scheme promising “fast tracked entry into the UK”...
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MPs quizzed on academic careers, gene-editing crops and more at Voice of the Future
The event gaves students and early-career scientists, representing over a dozen science organisations and several schools, the chance to scrutinise politicians and their advisors in a House of Commons committee room. Newly-appointed science minister...
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Crick Questions: Sir Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Nurse tells Tom Ireland about how the UK must overcome 'the UKIP factor' to attract the best overseas scientists, plus his plans for London's new 'superlab', the Francis Crick Institute The Biologist 61(6) p32-35 Sir Paul Nurse is president of...
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Safe Haven
Paul Weindling explores Britain's role supporting refugee biologists escaping war and persecution The Biologist Vol 61(6) p24-27 Between 1933 and 1945, the UK took in numerous biologists displaced by Nazism, Italian fascism and the Second World War....
