| Doesn't it make you proud? Rule Britannia. 07:54 - Jun 18 with 2688 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-
A Brazilian mother and father have been left distraught after being told by the Home Office that their young children have no right to stay in the UK and should return to Brazil alone.
Guilherme Serrano, 11, and Luca Serrano, eight, have spent most of their lives living in the UK with their mother, Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia, a senior NHS nurse, and father Dr Hugo Barbosa, a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Exeter. |  |
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| Doesn't it make you proud? Rule Britannia. on 15:09 - Jun 19 with 102 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
| Doesn't it make you proud? Rule Britannia. on 14:58 - Jun 19 by surreyblue |
Part of the problem is also that there is the sense (and in many cases, the reality) that hard work doesn't gets people the same rewards today that it did 20/30/40 years ago. I suspect this is a challenge in some STEM areas, particularly those that are quasi- or fully public sector, where there may be a view that a career in these areas is going to be underpaid versus other avenues that the hard working people who you want to target may otherwise go into - such as finance or IT. |
That is certainly part of the problem. There is a common pay spine in the NHS, and for example nurses and others can be frustrated that scientists in the NHS are generally on higher pay bands. But that’s because it takes a long time to train as a scientist at least 3 years post degree) and then further training and certification to progress.
The main thing to get across is that the careers are (I) pretty secure (2) you are doing a job that really benefits society (3) has a good pension. Once we get youngsters on work experience or especially as interns, they love it and mostly will accept that whilst they could earn more in private industry, the benefits above are worth it. But we are very limited in how many work experience and interns we can take, so a national campaign to promote public sector science would be very helpful! |  |
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