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Britain Losing Top Scientists To Brain Drain

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According to research by economists, twice as many physicists from a sample of the world's elite left Britain after completing their first degree than 25 other leading scientific countries.

The study said Britain was unable to compete with the United States and Switzerland, the two countries found to be able to attract the best scientists, where wages for top academics are higher.

The researchers, from the universities of Warwick and Newcastle, concluded that increases in the "wage premium" in "receiving" countries of top scientists would reinforce the trend and see more movement away from Britain. They said that "top scholars head to countries with high levels of research and development funding", which is declining in Britain compared to other leading countries.

The study, published in the Warwick Economics Research Institute bulletin, found there was a "greater attractiveness of the US compared to the UK as a place of residence and work for the highest quality of scientists".

While other countries were found to be experiencing the same trend, Britain lost 6 top physicists compared to three in Canada and Australia, the nearest net losers. When adjusted for population size, only these two and Austria did worse than Britain.

"Those persuaded by a sanguine view of international brain 'circulation', rather than drain, may wish to know that our later data paint largely a one-way picture, and one disproportionately towards the United States", the researchers said.

It also found that "UK success in winning Nobel science prizes has sharply declined", both compared to the US over the past 60 years and in general over the past two decades. While Britain won 20 Nobels compared to 45 in the US between 1947 and 1966, it won only 9 compared to 112 in the states between 1987 and 2006. "In the past 20 years the UK has lost its previous ability to attract future Nobel-prize-winning scientists from elsewhere", the researchers said.

Source: The Telegraph
 
Just shows how many brilliant people the UK produce on a regular basis. It also shows that they have a freedom of choice when it comes to deciding where to live
 
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The United States is the destination of choice for most British scientists.
 
mhall said:
Just shows how many brilliant people the UK produce on a regular basis. It also shows that they have a freedom of choice when it comes to deciding where to live

One country's loss is another country's gain.

Brain drain is also known as human capital flight. It is the mass emigration of technically skilled people from one country to another country.

British scientists are leaving the UK because there are lack of opportunities, lower pay, less chances of advancement, etc. in the country.
 
Of course he's anti british wouldn't you be if you'd been anally abused by british immigration whilst attempting to gain citizenship lol
 
Wifeluvers postings are so selective.He has for instance 'missed' the fact that a recent report by an international body has described the UK as the top location for receiving palliative caring.He has also 'missed' another report by another international organisation, which claims that the UK is the only one of the G20 nations to honour its promises regarding the provision of foreign aid,we are described as the only nation to have hit its target.Not bad for a country that according to wifeluvers postings is both uncaring and rampant with racism
 
WifeLuver is an embarrassment to the United States.
 
WifeLuver said:
The United States is the destination of choice for most British scientists.

Migration from the UK to US raises the average IQ of both countries.
 
I would like to know WifeLuver why it is always about the UK. I think we all deserve a answer to that question as you could pick apart any other country in the world for some issue so why the UK lets see if your balls are big enough to answer the question.
 
muleman said:
I would like to know WifeLuver why it is always about the UK. I think we all deserve a answer to that question as you could pick apart any other country in the world for some issue so why the UK lets see if your balls are big enough to answer the question.

He was anally gangbanged by our immigration officials,he's hating on us not because of the abuse,:D:D but because he enjoyed it so damned much,you would think he'd be thanking us for putting him in touch with his real self.
 
It really shouldn't be a big deal.

As an american, I thought it was the other way around. :O

Either way, I don't really care.
 

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