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Universities miss out on exceptional talent visas

UK losing out on recruiting non-EU researchers via Tier 1 route

British universities are failing to properly exploit a special category of visas created for the world’s most talented researchers, according to data obtained through freedom of information requests.

In 2017 there were 1,000 exceptional talent Tier 1 visas available, but only 693 were issued.

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