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Linking Gateway Technical College with Workforce Development: The SC Johnson-A Family Company Story.
Knudson, Edward – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2004
Seven years ago, SC Johnson--A Family Company approached Gateway Technical College with a need to further strengthen their incumbent workforce's technical training and education. Retirements, brain drain, and competition for technical expertise were the forces driving SC Johnson to develop a comprehensive, flexible, and timely workplace education…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Employees, Technical Institutes, Mechanical Skills
Keino, Leah C.; Van Wyk, Ria; Hendrich, Suzanne; Phye, Gary; Thompson, Ann – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2005
In an effort to address migration of talent from sub-Saharan Africa, a number of higher education institutions are attempting to strengthen or develop graduate programs in several areas. These institutions see the potential for emerging digital technologies to provide new and exciting opportunities for collaboration with Western institutions.…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Migration, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education
Ackerberg, Lynne – MinneTESOL Journal, 1989
China is used as a case study to examine the problem of "brain drain," the departure of skilled professionals and students from their own countries to live and work in the United States. Chinese attempts to adjust their policies for study abroad are reviewed, including proposed controls on what Chinese students study abroad, who goes…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Bray, Howard – New York Times Magazine, 1983
Examines economic and other reasons for Puerto Rican migration to the United States; describes the life styles, employment opportunities, and problems of middle class, professional and skilled Puerto Ricans who count among the new wave of migrants to the mainland; and suggests that more Puerto Ricans will migrate in the near future. (MJL)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Brain Drain, Economic Factors, Economic Opportunities

Schieffer, Kevin J. – International Educator, 1991
The systematic siphoning of talented individuals from developing nations, criticized in the years after World War II, has returned. A shrinking global community and changing patterns of trade and development have made the issues involved much more complex. Social, economic, ethical, and political obligations accompany this expanded international…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Ethics
Lewington, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Many midcareer academics are leaving Canadian colleges and universities for academic positions in the United States, where higher pay, budget flexibility, and academic communities are attractive. Canadian university leaders say the loss of such scholars is a brain drain the country can ill afford. In addition, Canadian universities face…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, College Environment, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility
Mc Auliffe, Eilish; Maclachlan, Malcolm – Higher Education Policy, 2005
In many developing countries, the value of knowledge is in its capacity to save and enhance human lives. The absence, loss or restriction of such knowledge impacts at the lowest levels of disadvantage and poverty, in death and disease. Essential components of an effective health service are medicines and skilled human resources. This paper…
Descriptors: Low Income, Developing Nations, Values, Brain Drain
Hujun, Li – Chinese Education and Society, 2004
Science-technology circles were powerfully shaken three years ago by the granting of annual subsidies of one hundred thousand yuan to specially invited professors when the "Changjiang Scholars" Program set up by Li Ka-Shing and the Ministry of Education started up. Today, another big uproar has been triggered by Qinghua University's…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
Tysse, Agnes M. – 1977
This bibliography, in two parts, analyzes articles appearing in 700 periodicals. More than 10,500 entries appear, and over half are annotated. The article groupings are: international education, international cooperation, educational and cultural exchange, brain drain, foreign students in the United States, Americans and American education abroad,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Area Studies, Brain Drain, Cultural Exchange
Teferra, Damtew; Altbachl, Philip G. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
African higher education, at the beginning of the new millennium, faces unprecedented challenges. Not only is the demand for access unstoppable, especially in the context of Africa's traditionally low postsecondary attendance levels, but higher education is recognized as a key force for modernization and development. Africa's academic institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Access to Education, Gender Issues
Akoojee, Salim; McGrath, Simon – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2004
This article reviews the effects of globalization on South Africa a decade after the transition to a post-apartheid system. It brings together some of the recent literature of the performance of the economy and concomitant changes in education. It shows the pervasive force of globalization on South African education and training and explores in…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Global Approach, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Feonova, M. R.; Spiridonova, G. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
In this article, the authors discuss the problems of professional education. They state that, the source of these problems--the violation of the constitutional rights of citizens to obtain an education accessible to all; the commercialization of education; and the worsening of the financial, material, technical, and cadre support of the system of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Constitutional Law, Access to Education
Dean, Diane R.; Hunt, Erika L.; Smith, Ryan – Center for the Study of Education Policy, 2006
This report, sponsored by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University, presents in-depth multi-method research and analysis on what matters to Illinois students and their families when choosing a college, why so many students are leaving the state, where they are going, and…
Descriptors: In State Students, Higher Education, College Choice, Student Mobility
Pedersen, Paul – 1992
This paper examines the "brain drain" phenomenon particularly in the context of Chinese students studying in the United States and the People's Republic of China's attempts to respond. An opening section critiques the "brain drain" notion arguing that it is an inadequate construct for the actual flow of personnel and ideas…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, College Students, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Alaska State Commission on Postsecondary Education, Juneau. – 1980
Public and private high school seniors from Alaska were surveyed in an effort to document the pattern of postsecondary education outside the state and to understand the underlying motivations of the "brain drain." For 1979-1980, 3,295 seniors responded (57 percent) to queries on their sex, race, primary home language, family income,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Brain Drain, College Choice, Comparative Analysis