The "brain drain" from Russia has almost stopped
The "brain drain" from Russia has practically stopped. Today we can talk about labor migration, scientific and scientific-technical exchange, but not about the mass relocation of domestic scientists abroad, as it was a few years ago.
This conclusion is contained in an analytical note prepared by the 808 Group and the Content Media Agency for the report at the forum "New Heroes of the New Time" by the head of the Center for International Educational Programs of UNESCO and UNICEF, President of the ANO "Initiation and Support of International National Projects", Professor Marina Sirota.
"Speaking of international cooperation, it should be noted that at present the forge of national personnel is not only the universities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Now regional higher educational institutions are engaged in the preparation of the real personnel reserve of our country, rather. And the outflow of specialists, or, as it is also called, "brain drain", from the regions is much less. It is more difficult for regional universities to engage in international activities, but representatives of many of them try to independently organize practice abroad as an exchange of experience," Marina Sirota notes.
According to an analytical note prepared on the basis of monitoring of federal and regional mass media, journalists showed the greatest interest in the topic of "brain drain" in mid-2005. This year saw the peak of publications devoted to this topic. In the future, public interest in the "brain drain" began to gradually decline. This was largely due to the actual decrease in the outflow of specialists abroad. At the same time, the existing scientific migration, according to the Russian press, in recent years has increasingly taken the form of economic cooperation, both at the state and corporate level.
In this regard, China, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and India are among the countries to which Russian scientists have traditionally traveled as part of scientific exchange or labor migration programs, in addition to Western Europe and the United States.
"It can be assumed that in the future the exchange of scientific specialists will deepen and expand. However, it will not wear the form of a "brain drain", but an equal international scientific cooperation. Multilateral intellectual cooperation is a natural and necessary stage in the development of civilization," concludes Marina Sirota.
The theses of the report of the head of the Center for International Educational Programs of UNESCO and UNICEF, the President of the ANO "Initiation and Support of International National Projects", Professor Marina Sirota and the materials of the analytical note can be found here.
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