Scientists Fear Visa Trouble Will Drive Foreign Students Away
4th March 2009
Although why this is necessarily a bad thing is by no means clear.
The issue matters because American universities rely on foreign students to fill slots in graduate and postdoctoral science and engineering programs.
I guess American students aren’t applying for those positions? So why are we training foreigners? Do we get some kind of scoring points for beating other countries out for foreign students? (And can those points be redeemed for valuable prizes? Somehow I suspect that they can.)
March 4th, 2009 at 08:24
“I guess American students aren’t applying for those positions?”
Oh, they’re applying all right. But students coming out of the American school system aren’t *qualified* for real research positions.