Russell Group fears impact of post-Brexit visa salary threshold

What nonsense. In one university I could mention law staff from overseas struggled with their English. They also held the attitude they were too high and mighty to help students. This was a course on English law, meanwhile solicitors practising in this country who could have helped students were unable to get a job in the same university. What precisely is the university being run for. I's shameful.

Ah, so the Russell Group just want to ensure a continuing supply of 'cheap' disposable labour? I consider myself fortunate to work in a specialist area of research, with people from around the world, but most are struggling to live on salaries way below their true worth. No matter that those specifying job roles always want the maximum person for the minimum pay, aided and abetted by (in)human resources. The fact that more than half of the 'technician' team members hold PhD's, maximum person, and are paid less than the 'machine minding monkeys' (a CNC programmers term for human 'robot' machine loaders) in other departments workshops, minimum pay, means increased bottom line 'profit' for the Academic leads, and more importantly the University. Perhaps it's time the Russell Group started looking at their staff's true worth, the excess hours they demand, and the poor pay they give to those that actually interface with students (primary customers) and research activities, not just those who're precariously balanced on the shoulders of those supporting the load...