REVERSING THE VORTEX:

Iraq's students say, 'Welcome back, professor': Iraq's brain drain is beginning to reverse as professors return from abroad. (Christina Asquith, 12/09/03, CS Monitor)

In recent months, university presidents report that dozens of professors have returned from exile and are looking to get their jobs back. At the US-led Ministry of Higher Education, staffed by expatriate professors, hundreds more have e-mailed from England, the US, and the Netherlands to inquire about returning. They also want to offer donations and scholarships, and to start partnerships.

Just as lost professors were symptomatic of universities' slump under Saddam Hussein, their reemergence offers a thread of promise for the future, particularly to colleagues struggling to piece back campuses suffering from academic repression, sanctions, looting, and now terrorism.

What does it say that Iraq has reversed its brain drain but France hasn't?

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 8, 2003 8:03 PM