Brain drain and the disenchantment of being a higher education student in Portugal

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2016

Authors

Cerdeira, Luísa (Author) Other; Machado-Taylor, Maria de Lurdes (Author) Other; Cabrito, Belmiro (Author) Other; Patrocínio, Tomás (Author) Other; Gomes, Rui (Author) Other; Lopes, João Teixeira (Author) FLUP; Vaz, Henrique (Author) FPCEUP; Peixoto, Paulo (Author) Other; Magalhães, Dulce (Author) FLUP; Silva, Sílvia (Author) Other; Ganga, Rafaela (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

Vol. 38 No. 1

Pages: 68-77

ISSN: 1360-080X

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Indexing

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

FOS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00K-5YJ

DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2015.1126892

Abstract (EN): The efforts made by most countries to accelerate economic development have included a significant investment in education. It has been argued that investment in education, particularly higher education, was itself a potential factor in economic development. Education has become a relatively easy means of improving access to the labour market. However, in Portugal, the recent trend has been reversed, and the country now faces a growing number of university graduates in several fields of education and training that do not have a job based on their formal qualifications. Despite the differences of unemployment by area of education and training, unemployment of the young skilled has been a problem in recent years. Therefore, following this unemployment trend, there has been growing the exodus of highly skilled professionals from the Portuguese economy, leaving it with a reduced supply of skilled people. This article discusses the employability of graduates from several academic areas and discusses the educational and economic policies that generate a real brain drain.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific