Mobility of sub-Saharan Africa doctoral graduates from South African universities—A tracer study

Kahn, Michael; Gamedze, Thandi; Oghenetega, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2019.04.006

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“…The results of the tracer study confirm its robustness and value. The preliminary results reported in Kahn et al (2019) are confirmed with a higher confidence level and are extended to address issues of policy relevance. Given the difficulty associated with access, and obtaining contact information, there was little prospect of conducting a nonresponse follow-up survey.…”

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“…The MOTHS study was conducted over the 4 years 2016-2019 and, despite numerous obstacles, was able to develop a robust methodology to track and trace doctoral graduates through the complete cycle from country of origin to host university and future employment (Kahn et al, 2019). A now larger realized sample allows for the exploration of a number of additional dimensions.…”

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Origins and destinations known: A tracer study of international African doctoral graduates from South Africa’s universities

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Oghenetega

2021

Industry and Higher Education

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The mobility of the highly skilled, summarized as brain drain, brain circulation and brain gain, remains a contentious issue for policy. Even so, the evidence base to inform policy remains poor. This gap is of particular importance to policymakers in countries that experience brain drain. This paper reports on the findings of a tracer study of international African doctoral graduates of South Africa’s leading universities. Since access to student records was problematic, the sample frame was developed by the inspection of library holdings of dissertations. This approach allowed for a representative sample to be surveyed. Contrary to the expectation that the majority of graduates would depart from Africa as a brain drain, it was found that the majority returned home on completion. Some 10% remained in South Africa as a brain gain to the host country, with but 5% leaving Africa. The outcome of their temporary migration was brain circulation and talent development.

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Origins and destinations known: A tracer study of international African doctoral graduates from South Africa’s universities

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Oghenetega

2021

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“…Other researchers of the benefits and losses of intellectual migration, including academic mobility, being aware of the existence of close links between migratory loss of intelligence and the level of economy innovation, tend to focus their research on mitigating the negative effects on donor countries through positive effects in the form of a transfer (Beech, 2019;Kalantaryan & Salamońska, 2019;Teichler, 2017), on emphasising the benefits of changing the brain gain processes in terms of brain circulation and diffusion of knowledge (Rashidi-Kollmann & Pyka, 2016;Solimano, 2016;Kahn et al 2019), including the use of national academic diasporas sources (Amagoh & Rahman, 2016). Asymmetry of losses of intellectual potential of youth, including inventors, is evident even within the EU, where the gap in economic and innovation development is not so tangible.…”

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Prospects of assessing the impact of external student migration on restoring country's intellectual potential (the case study of Ukraine)

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Roshchyk²,

Sułkowska³

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Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…Results show that a set of studies focused on destination countries [143][144][145] raises the necessity of a change of approach since these types of studies were initially raised based on the loss of advanced intellectual capital in the countries of origin. However, studies are currently rethinking their orientation to brain gain [12,[145][146][147][148][149], and to ideas of migratory dynamics presented in the brain circulation [12,47,146,147,[150][151][152][153][154]. Results emphasize that policies and efforts need to change if policymakers look at researchers' brain drain concept use.…”

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Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

Vega-Muñoz

Gónzalez-Gómez-del-Miño

Espinosa-Cristia

2021

Sustainability

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Scholars had been documenting the Brain Drain phenomenon producing scientific literature for more than 50 years. After three decades of slow but steady progress, literature about this concept has accelerated its progress and growth path, in line with the 9th sustainable development goal “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation” Thus, the present article aims to define the current theoretical trends about the analysis of advanced intellectual human capital’s international migratory phenomenon. This study uses a scientometric methodology on a corpus of 1212 articles indexed to the JCR-WoS from Social Sciences. The period covered in the study is from 1965 to 2020. The paper looks to understand how researchers studied the brain drain concept over the last 55 years in various disciplines. The report covers 99 categories from the Journal Citation Report (JCR) index. Results show that there is a scientific research critical mass that is studying the brain drain phenomenon. The analysis shows thematic trends at the sources, discourses, and consolidates classic works and some novel authors. Those new scholars and theoretical trends lead to refocused analysis beyond countries with a high development level. Such movement constitutes a new challenge in this line of research toward studying the effects of the brain drain in the peripheral areas of knowledge production.

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Mobility of sub-Saharan Africa doctoral graduates from South African universities—A tracer study

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Origins and destinations known: A tracer study of international African doctoral graduates from South Africa’s universities

Origins and destinations known: A tracer study of international African doctoral graduates from South Africa’s universities

Prospects of assessing the impact of external student migration on restoring country's intellectual potential (the case study of Ukraine)

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

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