Desperate need for migrants to take on key jobs

Published on Tuesday 9 September 2008 22:44

THE Migration Advisory Committee report sets out a list of the jobs where shortages exist and in which it believes UK firms should be entitled to recruit skilled migrant workers.

The UK government will respond to its proposals next month and the new rules will come into force in November.

The recommended jobs list includes: civil engineers, physicists, geologists and meteorologists, chemical engineers, specialist medical practitioners and dental practitioners. Skilled migrants are also welcome as vets, biological scientists and biochemists, psychologists, pharmacists/pharmacologists, medical radiographers, pharmaceutical dispensers, medical and dental technicians, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, secondary school maths and science teachers. They can also become quantity surveyors, nurses – though only some categories of operating theatre nurse, anaesthetic nurse, scrub nurse, theatre nurse, critical care nurse – engineering technicians, ballet dancers, ship and hovercraft officers and pipe fitters.