Graduate salary metrics ‘help push leavers towards London’

to be honest, I just wish we'd stop trying to measure everything in a "know the cost of everything and the value of nothing" fashion. Not only does it have unintended consequences but it distorts science. As a translational scientist I do support addressing public needs with my research, but some of my work in the past, driven by academic interest rather than targets, has had very large consequences in unimagined directions.