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Nearly Half of UK Students See Coding Skills as Vital as Foreign Language Skills for Future Career Prospects

Nearly half (49%) see coding languages as being either more or equally as valuable as foreign languages skills 41% of students can currently code or are learning a coding language  Nearly a third believe that coding is a core life skill 43% say a barrier to them learning to code is lack of access in education… Read More »

Number of babies born to foreign mothers in England and Wales hit record high last year

Covid pandemic and cost of living rises lead to the lowest British fertility rate since 1938 with women having just 1.58 children each and new births down 4% to two-decade low More than three quarters of babies born in part of England and Wales were to foreign mothers, ONS revealed  Some 613,936 babies were born… Read More »

America, please don’t kick out the foreign scientists you’re training

Foreign-born scientists such as myself have long been a key component of the U.S. research workforce. The work that scientists do greatly benefits the United States and the world. A significant share of the biomedical science talent in the pipeline at most American research universities are foreign-born. The ability of U.S. institutions to attract top… Read More »

FDA clears wave of foreign manufacturing plants as COVID-19 concerns continue to grow

U.S. eyes have turned abroad as the coronavirus crisis raises concerns about the safety of the global drug supply. In moves that could shore up confidence, the FDA has given a trio of overseas generics plants the all-clear to produce.  Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Biocon all received clean FDA reports at manufacturing facilities in… Read More »