Britain’s Wellcome Trust, the world’s largest largest medical charity, is to
give its 270 senior researchers a 30 per cent pay rise from October. The move is
designed to stem the “brain drain” of talented researchers to better-paid jobs
overseas and will put pressure on the research councils and universities to
follow suit. “It is now for government to respond and implement increases that
will secure the future of UK science,” says trust director Michael Dexter.
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