Brain Drain: Can We Stem the Flow?

人才流失:我们能阻止人才流失吗?

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-05-16

40 分钟
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The Forum is in Cape Town, South Africa, as guests of The British Council at the Going Global Conference. As globalisation enables the transit and relocation of people ever more quickly and easily, what impact is there on countries who desperately need to keep their skilled labour and what are the issues that need addressing? With Quentin Cooper to discuss the Brain Drain is professor Olusola Oyewole from Nigeria, Dr Jo Beall, from the British Council, professor Tao Xie from Beijing and Carolyn Medel-Anonuevo, from Unesco. (Photo: a human brain in a glass box. Credit: Getty Images)
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  • Today the programme comes from the Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa.

  • We're here as guests of the British Council at Going Global,

  • a conference for world leaders in education to debate the urgent international issues and challenges they're facing.

  • And chief among them is the one we're going to focus on today.

  • It's sometimes called human capital flight.

  • It's more often known as the brain drain.

  • We're going to not only explore why many,

  • arguably too many of the best and brightest people leave their homelands but also attempt to come up with ideas to help stem

  • that flow.

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  • Professor Olusola Oyooli is vice chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture at Abiyokuta in Nigeria and president of the Association of African Universities.

  • Dr Joe Beal is director of education and society at the British Council,