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Britain
Fears of brain drain as renowned UK scientists move to Canada
2010-05-18
Britain is to lose several of its foremost scientists next year following a recruitment drive to attract top brains to Canada.

The four researchers will leave their posts at UK universities for better-funded positions in institutions across the country. The British researchers won four C$20m (£13m) awards created by the Canadian government, the most by any country outside the US, which is to lose nine scientists to the scheme.

Adrian Owen, who helped set up the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre at Cambridge University and has risen to become one of neuroscience's brightest stars, will move to the University of Western Ontario, along with five of his research staff.
It's a big deal when the whole research group moves.
Howard Wheater, director of the Environment Forum at Imperial College London, will take up a chair in water security at Saskatchewan University; Graham Pearson from Durham University will move to the University of Alberta for a chair in Arctic resources; and Patrik Rorsman is leaving Oxford for Alberta University, where he will be professor of diabetes.

The moves come after several senior scientists in Britain warned that a brain drain was imminent as the new government prepares to make swingeing cuts in public spending that are likely to have a heavy impact on research funding.
Posted by:lotp

#3  What the heck happened to Britannia?

Clement Atlee.

What is pathetic is that they are going to Canada and not the US as they did in the 50s and 60s.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-05-18 16:12  

#2  What the heck happened to Britannia? The country is not free anymore. Sharia law has made inroads. Rampant welfare. Years of liberal immigration policies.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-05-18 16:08  

#1  Supporting Muslim families with nine children ain't cheap, especially when there are three or more wives. Britain has to cut somewhere, and it's not likely they'll need hightech research in the future anyway.
Posted by: gromky   2010-05-18 06:56  

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