Outraged UK scientists are taking to the streets tomorrow in a rally in London to protest about reduction in science funding.
The campaign, Science is Vital, is supported by many prominent scientists and Nobel Prize winners.
Government immigration policy is also the target of their anger.
In planned moves to drastically reduce non-EU immigration the UK government will seriously restrict the number of researchers and scientists who come to work in UK universities.
This is particularly pertinent at the moment following the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Physics to two Russian migrants to the UK, Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov, of the University of Manchester.
In a letter to the Times newspaper, eight furious and prominent academics write
…it is a ”sad reflection” that scientists and engineers could not be afforded the same exception to the rules as Premier League footballers.
Yes, sad but true. The UK government thinks football is more important than science.
Let’s hope the rally tomorrow helps to change their minds.
//Esther Crooks
So, the money for tax exemptions for rich researchers should be taken from handicapped children?
Now, that would be an outrage
So, the money for tax exemptions for rich researchers should be taken from handicapped children?
Now, that would be an outrage
The reason why it is dangerous to give special breaks to either footballers or scientists
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/opinion/aktuellafragor/article279235/Astudillos-stolpskott-.html
The reason why it is dangerous to give special breaks to either footballers or scientists
http://www.sydsvenskan.se/opinion/aktuellafragor/article279235/Astudillos-stolpskott-.html
It certainly would be an outrage! I had not heard about the special football tax-breaks for footabllers and researchers you have written about. In the UK there are no such tax breaks, as far as I am aware, (and all Brits are feeling the pinch of the new austerity measures!).
The debate here is about ”visa” breaks – helping the UK economy by allowing talented individuals such as researchers come and work. At the moment it is only footballers who get special consideration, it seems.
It certainly would be an outrage! I had not heard about the special football tax-breaks for footabllers and researchers you have written about. In the UK there are no such tax breaks, as far as I am aware, (and all Brits are feeling the pinch of the new austerity measures!).
The debate here is about ”visa” breaks – helping the UK economy by allowing talented individuals such as researchers come and work. At the moment it is only footballers who get special consideration, it seems.