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  • April 2008

    • Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

      Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 20, 08 5:04 PM CDT

      Booming India Sees 'Brain Gain'

      (Newser) - India's educated are no longer rushing to the West for big bucks and a better lifestyle, the Guardian reports. More university grads are refusing to emigrate and many expats are returning home—a trend experts are dubbing "brain gain." One Indian, formerly in London, said he would "read about what was happening in India and I'd ask myself: What am I doing here? It was an obvious choice to return." More »

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      India  • immigration  • brain drain  • emigration  • reverse brain drain

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Record Brain Drain Rocks Britain as Emigration Soars

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 21, 08 3:35 AM CST

      Record Brain Drain Rocks Britain as Emigration Soars

      (Newser) - The UK is experiencing the worst "brain drain" of any country as the British move abroad to seek better lives at the highest rate since just after World War II, a study has found. More than a tenth of the highest-skilled Brits have moved overseas for reasons that one professor said had to "do with quality of life, laws and bureaucracy, tax and all the rest ." Of 3.2 million British-born people living abroad, more than a third are highly-skilled university graduates. More »

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      United Kingdom  • immigration  • British  • brain drain  • emigration

  • December 2007

    • In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      BusinessWeek  |  Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST

      In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

      (Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in almost every dimension," boasts Yale's president. More »

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      Harvard  • Stanford University  • Yale University  • Ivy League  • Princeton University  • brain drain

  • August 2007

    • US Visa Logjam Triggers Reverse Brain Drain

      AFP  |  Aug 23, 07 7:31 AM CDT

      US Visa Logjam Triggers Reverse Brain Drain

      (Newser) - Just as the US tightens immigration controls, a huge backlog in processing visas for legal migrants is causing a "reverse brain drain," forcing sought-after scientists, engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs to return to their home countries, according to a report released yesterday. One million would-be immigrants are competing for only 120,000 permanent visas issued each year, reports AFP. More »

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      immigration  • Silicon Valley  • immigrant  • visa  • brain drain  • reverse brain drain

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