Brain Drain
2017 01 11
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Last night I was speaking briefly with a young man who's a doctoral candidate in cognitive science; and he, like so many before him, is giving thought to absconding to parts south because he, like so many others, has no funding to continue his work.
Canadian universities do not put the same kind of money into their Masters and PhD candidates that American universities do. I can't speak for other countries, having never investigated it, but I do know that this isn't the first time I've heard someone talk about this sort of thing. I knew someone a few years ago who wouldn't, and couldn't, start her Masters degree because she couldn't afford to - she'd have had to do the same thing the man last night was considering, and that's going to the U.S. There wasn't a single university in this country that would have paid sufficiently.
If you want to keep people, or simply not lose them, you need to give them a reason to stay. You need to find the money or the means, so that you don't lose the best brains you've got to a place they might not come back from.