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Prof O'Keefe, a dual British-US citizen, started his career at McGill University in Canada before moving to University College London. He has to recruit 150 neuroscientists in his role as the director of the new Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for research into neural circuits and behaviour. "The immigration rules are a very, very large obstacle. "I am very, very acutely aware of what you have to do if you want to bring people into Britain and to get through immigration, I'm not saying it's impossible, but we should be thinking hard about making Britain a more welcoming place." Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to reduce net migration to less than 100,000 a year by 2015, while Home Secretary Theresa May has spoken about reducing it to tens of thousands. Prof O'Keefe added: "Science is international, the best scientists can come from anywhere, they can come from next door or they can come...

Ik wil jullie bij deze attenderen op een ZEER interessant en ook lang artikel op de BBC website: By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent   Gustav Born is one of the last living links with the refugee scientists Continue reading the main story When Gustav Born's family were advised in early 1933 that it was time to leave Nazi-controlled Germany, it was from a good authority.The advice was from Albert Einstein, who told his friend and fellow scientist Max Born to "leave immediately" with his family while they were still able to travel.They packed their bags and headed across the border, first to Italy and then to England, where they arrived as part of what must have been the best-qualified refugee trail in history.Gustav Born was 11 at the time, living in Gottingen, Lower Saxony, where his father, Max, was director of one of the world's leading centres for physics research...