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UK visa scheme for Nobel laureates receives no applications

When it was launched, Priti Patel said “this is exactly what our new point-based immigration system was designed for – attracting the best and brightest based on the skills and talent they have."

Jack Peat by Jack Peat
2021-11-22 17:32
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A government visa scheme for Nobel prize laureates and other award winners has failed to attract a single person since launching six months ago, a Freedom of Information request submitted by New Scientist has revealed.

The scheme has come under criticism from those in the science profession, who have described it as “a joke”.

When it was launched in May, Priti Patel said: “This is exactly what our new point-based immigration system was designed for – attracting the best and brightest based on the skills and talent they have, not where they’ve come from.”

But six months on, no one has opted to go down the fast-track route, and according to scientists, there’s a good reason why.

“The scheme is a joke”

“Chances that a single Nobel or Turing laureate would move to the UK to work are zero for the next decade or so,” Andre Geim at the University of Manchester, told the New Scientist.

Geim, who won a Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on graphene, said: “The scheme itself is a joke – it cannot be discussed seriously.

“The government thinks if you pump up UK science with a verbal diarrhea of optimism – it can somehow become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Meanwhile, shadow science minister Chi Onwurah added: “It’s clear this is just another gimmick from a government that over-spins and under delivers.

“It is not surprising that the government has failed so comprehensively to attract scientists from abroad, given their lack of consistent support for scientists here.”

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