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| Britain | |
| Biggest brain drain from UK in 50 years | |
| 2008-02-21 | |
Britain is experiencing the worst "brain drain" of any country as highly qualified professionals settle abroad, an authoritative international study showed yesterday.
More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #14 Emigrating Brits will bring low their adopted countries just like Massholes moving to New Hampshire are a drag on the granite state and Californians are ruining CO and NV. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2008-02-21 21:37 |
| #13 US immigration policy is totally farked, most Brits are headed for Canada or Kiwiland. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-02-21 21:31 |
| #12 I've worked with a lot of expat Brit engineers over the years, and the first two who came to mind are both married to expat Brit doctors. Give us your engineers, your doctors, your research scientists, yearning to be free. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-02-21 21:11 |
| #11 This has been going on for a long time and I am amazed there are enough skilled people left in the UK to constitute an ongoing 'Brain Drain'. I frankly don't believe the 3.247 million brits living abroad and note the spurious precision of the number. Government statistics are worthless, because they have always played down the significance of emigration. The last Australian census showed over 1 million people born in the UK living here. The number of brits overseas is at least 5 million. As I tell my wife, where-ever you go in the world you are sure of finding 2 things; ex-patriate Brits and Chinese food. Disclaimer: I'm an expatriate Brit and my wife tells me for a GweiLo I cook pretty good Chinese food. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-21 20:42 |
| #10 All Your Brains Are Belong to US! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-02-21 16:36 |
| #9 Even worse Old Spook, they want to be treated like human beings, not stinky-white-men-things. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-21 15:48 |
| #8 "The cost of training a junior doctor, for example, is £250,000." And then they let him earn 20K locked into a national health care system that turns him into an automaton with his decisions driven by politics more than medicine. No wander they leave - they want to be DOCTORS. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-02-21 15:44 |
| #7 Once again, the intelligent leave. The main reason the USA is so great, we have all your brains. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-02-21 13:20 |
| #6 The report is a statistical analysis which does not study the motivation for leaving Britain. Because it is impossible for a statistical analysis to capture this sort of data. /the Deciders |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-02-21 12:32 |
| #5 They left out the elephant standing in the middle of the room, unskilled immigrants. These people get on the dole as soon as the step into the country and many will stay there forever. This has taxed a very generous but failed social programs to the breaking point including National Health. Gee, I wonder why their taxes are so high and going up. Gee, I wonder why their once great Military is a shadow of it's once proud self. Gee, I wonder why the social fabric is so tattered including the calls for separate laws (Sharia). My wife is English and as she visits home once a year she says she doesn't recognize the England she grew up in any more. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-02-21 11:45 |
| #4 I doubt that Mr. Brown is concerned. Most of those leaving are not labour voters. Most of those coming in are. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-02-21 11:29 |
| #3 Prof Christian Dustmann, of University College London, said: "The costs of leaving a country are substantial. The rewards must be very high." This guy "gets it". |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-02-21 09:40 |
| #2 Trying to force everyone to be alike when some are more skilled and talented and then trying to pay them all the same will lead to "Brain Drain". You think they would have learned from the Soviets, but Noooooo. Gee, that didn't work and was a complete disaster. I have an idea! Let's do the same thing all over again! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-02-21 09:35 |
| #1 The report cited research suggesting that 62 per cent of the world's "star scientists" live in the US, primarily because of the efforts made by American research universities to attract them. Because they get to keep far more of what they earn. You could match the salaries but when you then turn around and deduct all your taxes, it still doesn't add up. And they go to America for the same reason people jumped the "Wall" back in the 'old days'. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs didn't work in the 20th Century and it's not going to work in the 21st Century, regardless of who's in charge. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-21 09:25 |