Smit wrote:
If it really is true that 35% of HSMP visa holders returned back to their home countries within 7 months, this to me shows that there is something going wrong somewhere with the HSMP Scheme, considering that all applicants declared that they intended to make the UK their main home!
And we haven't even started talking about the brain drain affecting third world countries...
Smith,
There has to be some give and take.
For the "brain drain", my country in return gets a whole lot of inflows coming in form of foreign monies from other economies. All of a sudden funds transfer has become another successful form of business even the stock exchange is getting a lot of it from immigrants investing back home.
Then what exactly is soo called brain drain.... in my opinion that dosent apply in nigeria. more than 70% of graduates do not even get decent paying jobs here at home. My husband has been out of a job for 2 months, with his 6 years+ experience and soo much networking he has only been able to get 5 interviews whereas posting his CV on just 2 jobsites in Uk last year october ..he has not stopped receiving phone calls and emails for interviews. he still got one yesterday.
I really cant wait for his appeal to come thru. There simply are no jobs here as well, relative to the number qualified and seeking, and if you get a well paying job, you have to contend with conditions of living. I have had electricity for only 4 hours in the last 3 days. And i live in a commercial zone in the heart of the city. Thank God for generators
lets be real, some third world countries are closer to 1st world countries more than others. You really cant compare india with nigeria (my own opinion), at least they have made a mark in IT, my bank uses one of their softwares and almost every bank worth its salt is signing up to that software. Unfortunately, my country has a lot of potential but im not interested in waiting till im 50 to realise the potential.
For people like ssashi who are close to be nobel laurets in their country..theres no point in leaving, but they should look for ways of giving their kids better choices and opportunities than they had.
On the whole, everyones situation is just different. There are challenges but i would gladly brace the western worlds challenges than nigerias challenges at least for now. If I work half as hard as I do here, then I know I cannot but succeed sooner or later in a land of more opportunities.