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Brein drain SA: Panicked academics look for jobs overseas.
[Times Live] The Times in Cape Town was contacted by a group of academics who said that most of their colleagues are afraid to speak out against the current student anarchy and violence and are secretly looking for employment at more stable institutions.
The money always seems to run out, but it runs out faster when the students burn the school to the ground.
The impending "mass exodus" looms as the stalemate between university managements and the student protesters continues.

A recent study by the International Monetary Fund found that skilled workers are exiting sub-Saharan Africa at an increasing rate, and that the number of sub-Saharan migrants living in developed countries could increase from about 7million in 2013 to about 34million by 2050.
There are two facts in that sentence. They are not necessarily about the same people --- and probably aren't.
One academic in the humanities faculty at the University of Cape Town, who asked not to be named, said he was looking for a position further afield and that other academics, not only at UCT, were doing the same.

"The gradual effect of the continued protests will be the eventual impoverishment of South African tertiary educational institutions," the source said. "The very best academics will look for, and easily secure, employment at more stable universities [elsewhere].

"Top researchers will choose to do their PhDs elsewhere.

"This will be disastrous, not only for South Africa but for Africa as a whole, since much of the research into challenges facing the continent emanates from the top South African institutions."
Con't.
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=470030