Simply described, brain drain is when a country’s vast majority of educated professionals leave to move to one of the more developed countries for better opportunities. These “better” opportunities can be anything from more academic freedom, high-class research facilities, world class educational institutions or very simply a better quality of life.
According to OECD – UNDESA report published in Oct 2013, 41% of Mauritius highly educated people are currently living abroad in one of the developed countries. Mauritian students are increasingly leaving the country for further studies. Most of these students enroll at overseas institutions in the UK, Australia, Europe (in particular France) and India. It is also a major victim of the brain drain towards America. This trend is already leading to labor shortages in several sectors; in particular health, education and ICT (Information and Communication Technology).
Ever since independence in 1968, Mauritius achieved what many African nations were not fortunate enough to accomplish: the transformation from a low developed, poverty stricken island in the 1970s to an expanding economy and financial as well as technological hub for the region. However these transformational years have also seen a lot of good talent move out in search of better pastures.
Emigration reasons:
Like any developing country, lack of infrastructure, job security, big gaps in health, education, environment and public management, high unemployment rate, and limited growth opportunities plague Mauritius.
Wide range of advancement opportunities in academic and research sectors, higher salaries, a better environment, cleaner air/water and a good basic living standard are some of the top reasons that young Mauritians...
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...l be crucial to achieve this. ICT can do for Mauritius what it did for India. It put simple middle class Indian citizens in the driver’s seat of the Indian economy, giving them spending and purchasing power. It changed the landscape of India’s job market and filled the youth with a positive feeling about living and working in India.
Mauritius should further their efforts in boosting skills inflow into key managerial and technical areas in the country. They should use ICT as a platform to engage the Mauritian diaspora internationally on how to contribute towards changing attitudes and perspectives about Mauritius. Last but not the least, it should ensure that governments and ICT employers work together to create better opportunities for Mauritian citizens. In short, it needs to create a business environment that will attract its young professionals seeking employment.
Bahira, s. (2014). the Manual for Measuring ICT Access and Use by Households and Individual.
Migration is the spread of human beings from one location to another in hopes of staying there permanently. North America is a product of Migration being that the entire population once migrated here from other countries or continents. With this being said, all of the humans walking on North American soil has ancestors from another place on earth. Push and pull factors are the two different reasons for motivating a person(s) relocation, which is what drove many people to North America. Push factors are are the motivation to move people away from a location and pull factors are those that attract them to the new location. Globalization is a process that involves the mixing of people, corporations and governments of separate nations. Globalization is directly connected to migration because it is actually the beginning of the mixture of culture and religions many years ago.
Guruz, K., (2011). Higher education and international student mobility in the global knowledge economy. Albany : State University of New York Press
Migration is not just about arrival, but also departure and circulation’ (Raghuram and Erel, 2014, p. 150). Explain how different sorts of evidence in DD102 have been used to support this claim.
According to my research plan, my research topic is on migration and brain drain (with a case study on African students in Sweden). I will start by defining migration which is the area I am going to be researching on. According to Castle and Miller (2008), Migration is the process or means by which people move from one geographical location to another geographical location (Castle and Miller, 2009). However, migration plays a key role in the development of both developed and developing countries.
... Secondary Education, both Suriname and UMIC has overall rising numbers with brief declines in the early 1980’s, with both having a high rate of approximately 85% in 2010-2011 (Graph B. and C.). For Gross Tertiary Education, both Suriname and UMIC again have rising rates, although UMIC had a much higher rate of increase than Suriname. In 1981, Suriname started at 6.24% and by 2002 rose to 12% (Graph B.), while UMIC started just slightly higher at 6.4%, but rose to 19%(Graph C.). While there is no data on the gross tertiary education of Suriname since 2002, UMIC has continued to grow, reaching 33.3% by 2011 (Graph C.). Based on the previously similar patterns, we can extrapolate that Suriname has also continued to rise.
To sum up, the migration is widespread tendency what people do all over the world, but especially in areas where are low living standards or people feel discriminated. Men and women migrate because of different reasons. Women mainly migrate because they want to achieve more power, feel independent, and control their own life, also they migrate because they want to live with their husbands and children. Men migrate mostly because they want to get better job and send money to their families. The migration can be limited, but it can be effectively limited only if women and men can achieve their goals in their own countries and feel free and achieve good living standards. Also society in those countries where migration is essential problem, need to change, and try not to judge and discriminate people.
a company which is incorporated in Mauritius or has its Central Management and control in Mauritius
This essay seeks to investigate the negative and positive effects of migration in London. As the London Migration Observatory claim London has the largest number of migrants among all regions of the United Kingdom (UK). About 37% of the UK’s foreign-born population was in London (LMO, Dr.Rienzo and Dr.Vargas-Silva). Furthermore, According to the Benton-Smith statistic, London is the 5th International city in the world after New York, Toronto, Dubai and Los Angeles.That is why author choose this city. This research will analyze the impacts of migration to the London in the different aspects, such as social and economy.
Martinez, Luis. "The Study Abroad Advantage." Diverse: Issues In Higher Education 28.21 (2011): 25. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
...active to investors to build more hotels, and island destinations. There is potential for this country to move forward and no longer be a third world country, it just needs to tap into its resources to make a difference.
Due to the dependence on non-internal markets, Singapore is more vulnerable to repercussions and actions of the global markets and as a result, the global recession had impacted unemployment rates heavily, which had resulted in a rise in unemployment. Putting that aside, Singapore is known to be among one of the highest employment ratings in the world. Another form of unemployment which is a challenge to Singapore is structural unemployment. Moving alongside Singapore’s speedily developing economy is its shift from being a labour intensive economy to a capital intensive one. This is inescapably met with the challenge of the substitutions of skills in the labour force of Singapore. For example, the recent shift into the biomedical and Research and Development (R&D) industries subject workers who can only work in the lower end of manufacturing industries tend to find themselves unemployed because the mass production work is usually outsourced to other economies that are developing. In order to solve this issue, the government of Singapore had invested a large sum in training and education, with and average of one in four citizens who were employed in 2010 to be degree holders, therefore allowing citizens of Singapore to remain relevant and
Travel & tourism economic impact 2013: Mauritius. (n.d.). The authority on World travel & tourism. Retrieved March 22, 2014, from http://www.wttc.org/site_media/uploads/downloads/mauritius2013_2.pdf
ICT helps me with an lot of my everyday routine and jobs that I need
Mauritius Telecom (MT) Ltd is the leading telecommunications operator and service provider in Mauritius. Incorporated in 1988 as Mauritius Telecommunication Services, it acquired the assets of Overseas Telecommunications Services in 1992 and was renamed Mauritius Telecom. It has since enjoyed a phenomenal rate of development and it is now one of the top companies in the country.