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Brain Drain

TORONTO -- "Brain drain" and efforts to combat it continue to be a major motivation behind a range of higher education policies worldwide. While some of those efforts have succeeded, the ability of the United States and a few other English-speaking nations to attract the best talent to their shores is likely to continue, with serious ramifications for the rest of the world.

Those were some general conclusions of a panel of experts here Friday at the First International Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education. (Inside Higher Ed is one of the organizers of the conference.) The experts also noted many subtleties in the flow of academic talent that sometimes escape the policy makers.

 

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