Immigration and the UK
With all these proposals to keep the great un-washed out, how does the UK Government propose to staff those positions it doesn't train people for? You *are* aware, for instance, that the UK trains about 40 electrical engineers a year? What about nuclear engineering--where does the Government propose to find people to run the new power plants? But wait, it gets better. Most foreign universities rate a new UK PhD as about equivalent to a 'strong masters', so the UK has to import all its lecturers in fields--particularly interdisciplinary fields--where the coursework in a one-year masters degree is inadequate preparation. And I doubt international researchers are particularly interested in jumping through hoops backwards to please a Government as parochial as this one.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
