INTELLECTUAL MIGRATION AS AN ISSUE OF CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

Oksana Abreu Bastos, Vladyslav Koshulko

Abstract


This article discusses the causes and consequences of intellectual migration, brain drain, or the migration of Ukrainian scientists and educators from Ukraine. Causes for brain drain are: lack of reforms in education and science; low public spending on science and education; no conditions for work; the artificial obstacles for obtaining foreign grants and scholarships; no material and housing conditions; no moral or psychological freedom; no decent wages. Consequences of brain drain are: lack of reforms in the state; the significant lag in education, science, and in socio-economic and cultural areas; isolation from worldwide innovation and progress; political and socio-economic crisis; loss the status of the scientific country. Also this paper examines the dynamic of the reduction in the number of scientists from 1990-2012. The conclusions of the study are assumptions about the negative consequences of the current situation in the Ukrainian education and science system for Ukraine's future. We are sure that only real and consistent reforms of science and education can protect the Ukrainian system of education and science from irreversible processes. The country needs real reforms that could accumulate the human capital of Ukrainian scientists and educators through the creation of reasonable living and working conditions for them inside the country, not abroad. Otherwise, Ukraine could lose its status as a scientific state.

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Ukraine, intellectual migration, brain drain, education, science, human capital, worldwide, scientists, educators, reforms of science and education, causes, consequences

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