Augustana College plans to fight the 'brain drain' in the Quad Cities
Graduation is around the corner and many Augustana College students will leave the Quad Cities to pursue their careers, which is called a "brain drain." More...
Alarm over poaching of computer science academics
In Tech, We are All Maritimers
By . I got a bit of blowback for Friday’s blog criticizing that U of T/Brock piece on the alleged Brain Drain. Nobody tried to argue that my critique of the methodology was wrong, but some argued that a) data on migration is always terrible and I was making the perfect the enemy of the good and b) I was ignoring the core truth that a lot of Canadian tech talent does head south and this makes things difficult for Canadian tech firms, and snark is well and good but what are we going to do about this migration. More...
Bad Data on Brain Drain
By . Periodically, in Canada, someone comes up with a statistic about higher education. Doesn’t matter if it makes the least bit of sense – as long as it serves somebody’s political narrative. This statistic can go ON and ON unchallenged for years unless someone steps on it quickly. More...
Union leader blames brain drain on HE budget cuts
Brexit brain drain: elite universities say they are losing future research stars
Many top European academics working in Britain arrived as young PhD students. Now universities fear discoveries and research are at risk because of a drop in applications from bright EU PhD candidates. More...
China’s Brain Drain Is Ending
By Rachael Pells for Times Higher Education. A sure sign of a higher education sector that is still in its developmental stage is a brain drain of young researchers to Western universities. More...