IT’S OFFICIAL. The European Union is losing some of its best brains in science and technology to the US at an alarming rate.
The latest figures make sombre reading. According to a report published last month by the European Commission, three-quarters of graduates who go to the US to study for PhDs prefer to stay on and join the American workforce after they qualify. The net result of this migration is that Europe contributes 14 per cent of the total overseas science and technology workforce in the US – and 1 in 10 foreign nationals working in the US in…
