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Latova, Natalia V.; Savinkov, Vladimir I. – European Journal of Education, 2012
The emigration of highly-qualified academics ("brain drain") is considered an essential factor in the decline of the human capital of post-Soviet Russia. However, statistics show that the scale of this phenomenon since 2000 was minor. The Russian scientists who went abroad for permanent residence or for a contract job abroad represented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Human Capital, Brain
Labi, Aisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, it looked at first as if many European universities were going to escape the worst. Higher education has long been considered a public right and a taxpayer-financed obligation, and there was optimism that universities, which government leaders hail as drivers of economic growth, would emerge relatively…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Economic Progress
Malok, Malok N. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership style and motivation among faculty members in two public universities in the Republic of the South Sudan. The researcher examined this issue by surveying and interviewing faculty members in two public universities in the Republic of South Sudan, a total of 67 for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Teacher Motivation, College Faculty
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Wadhwa, Rashim; Jha, Shashiranjan – Higher Education for the Future, 2014
During the last decade education worldwide has experienced massive changes ranging from domestic market inauguration to the internationalization. In due course of time, there has been a great urge for restructuring the education system to make it internationally comparable ensuring economic benefit. The developed countries have dominated through…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Celik, Servet – Online Submission, 2012
To answer an overwhelming demand for university faculty, Turkey's Ministry of National Education (MoNE) developed a scholarship program to sponsor graduate study abroad. After completion, program recipients are expected to serve in Turkey's universities. However, the cost of the program relative to the contributions of returning scholars has led…
Descriptors: Expertise, Graduate Study, Research Design, Qualitative Research
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Lee, Jenny J.; Kim, Dongbin – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
This study explored the reasons for current reverse mobility patterns in South Korea and how the country benefits from returning U.S. doctoral recipients in the forms of brain gain and brain circulation. Based on interviews of Korean faculty who studied in the U.S., this study found that while the political economy might help to explain why Korean…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, Brain Drain, Interviews
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Welch, Anthony R.; Zhen, Zhang – Higher Education Policy, 2008
In the global era, transnational flows of highly skilled individuals are increasing. In the much-touted global knowledge economy, the contribution of such diasporic individuals and the knowledge networks that they sustain are recognized as being of increasing importance. Brain circulation is of critical importance to the "giant…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Talent, Brain Drain
Kalman, Matthew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Tal Ben-Shahar was once a successful psychology professor at Harvard University. His classes on positive psychology attracted audiences of more than 850 students, making it the most popular course on the campus. But the best-selling author of "Heaven Can Wait" and "Happier" left America in 2006 to return to his native Israel…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Colleges, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Praveen, C. – Online Submission, 2010
This is a report of the Two-Day National Seminar on New Directions in Higher Education, organized by the Kerala State Higher Education Council on 12th and 13th July 2010. The objective of the seminar was to deliberate upon the reforms being undertaken by the Government of India in Higher Education. Reputed scholars from within and outside the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Seminars, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Roberts, Gerrylynn K.; Simmons, Anna E. – Annals of Science, 2009
This paper investigates the extent of overseas migration by British chemists over the period 1887-1971. Notwithstanding the "brain drain" alarms of the 1960s, overseas employment was characteristic of some 19% of British chemists' careers throughout our period, though its nature changed considerably. Our study examines the overseas…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Overseas Employment, Open Universities, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Rui; Qiu, Fang-fang – Australian Educational Researcher, 2010
In a context of intensified globalisation, knowledge diaspora as "trans-national human capital" have become increasingly valuable to society. With an awareness of a need for more empirical studies especially in Australia, this article concentrates on a group of academics who were working at a major university in Australia and came…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Brain Drain, Human Capital
Overland, Martha Ann – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Twenty years ago, Vietnam's closed-door policy meant its students were restricted to the former Soviet-bloc countries. Today they study all over the world--about 6,000 are in the United States alone. In many cases, their tuition and living expenses are paid by foreign governments and private charitable organizations. Fulbright, the Ford…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Employment Opportunities
Celik, Servet – Online Submission, 2012
In recent decades, the Republic of Turkey has undertaken a program of reform aimed at modernizing its higher education system. This endeavor has included a comprehensive restructuring of the nation's public universities. In order to meet the urgent need for highly qualified faculty members to staff its state-run higher education institutions, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Theory, Public Colleges, Doctoral Degrees
June, Audrey Williams – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Public colleges and universities are girding themselves to win the war for tenured talent. Some are succeeding. State budget woes and a rocky economy have shaken public colleges and universities. One of the most noticeable shudders has been a pervasive "brain drain," as many state institutions face competition for their best faculty members from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Brain Drain, Department Heads
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Owoeye, J. S.; Oyebade, S. A. – African Higher Education Review, 2010
Research is regarded as essential for development and the application of new knowledge for the benefit of society. Higher education in Uganda has expanded rapidly in the last 20 years. Universities have become the most important institutions in the achievement of national and international goals in enhancing the quality of life, wealth creation,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Teacher Salaries
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