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Author Topic: Student Visa's and Research  (Read 1728 times)
expatinuk
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« on: November 13, 2011, 04:26:44 AM »
Story in today's Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/13/graphene-research-novoselov-geim-manchester

Wonder if these guys would have been allowed to stay in the UK under the Tory's Gov't new student visa requirements!
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2011, 05:44:31 AM »
It doesn't matter.  £50m is not enough money to jump-start an industry on a new material; the UK will never see an economic return on it.  From a purely economic POV the UK would have been better off denying the visas and letting Geim and Novoselov go somewhere else. 

Of course, the argument that the UK has a national interest in maintaining their strength in fundamental scientific research remains strong, as it is for any country of significance, and it provides a prima facie argument for why these two (and many others) should have been granted visas regardless of any potential financial payoff.

Oh, and watch those plural's. - DvF
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The U.S. Education Department is establishing a new national research center to study colleges' ability to successfully educate the country's growing numbers of academically underprepared administrators.
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2011, 05:48:15 AM »
Quote from: daniel_von_flanagan on November 13, 2011, 05:44:31 AM
Oh, and watch those plural's. - DvF

LOL... you think THIS was bad  you should see my FB post about this same story... I type faster than I proof... but this is a conversational medium (AFAIC) so to quote Rhett Butler, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
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