Brain Drain in Iran
I read an interesting article today regarding the brain drainage that is occurring in Iran. This is really an important issue I think and one that I often wonder about. If you think about it, at least engineering wise, most of the students from the top 4-5 universities in Iran go overseas to US/Canada/Aus for their graduate studies. They rarely return after finishing. I find this is for example unlike the trend in India or even China, where many return if not immediately, they work a couple of years and then return. This is a huge brain drainage and I wonder when the effects will become evident. The interesting thing in the article was that:
According to the IMF more than a 150,000 of the best young minds in Iran are leaving every year.
"They want to go abroad to find a decent job, well paid - that's the main purpose... A minority wants freedom and liberty, but the main point is jobs," explains Siavosh who's hoping to move to Australia.
It is interesting that it is the job situation that is the primary reason for the move and not the freedom and liberty. I wonder what the job situation is like in China or India for example. Anyone know?
8 comments:
GRRR THIS new bloger
K, now short.
ALVARO should apply to faculty position in Colombia. Don't encourage him to just Go away.
what new blogger?? what's wrong?
oopse it posted without my say-so. I think Colombia is also one of those countries whose people return to it so Alvaro's loss should not be a big one :-)
I am taking Gelareh with me back to Colombia :-P
Yay, now we are talking :)
He's dreamin... :-P
What? Why?
Why wouldn't you like to go work alongside Alvaro in Colombia?
Ah?
Do you hate Colombia that much?
was just going to send this article to you - and checked your blog - in case you had already seen it.
I think that the trend you see of Indians going back is largely the result of the post-90s technology boom. A very large percentage stay abroad - because the jobs and opportunity is/was here.
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