• davetortoise@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    I’m in the UK, and know several people currently applying to PhD and fellowship positions. It’s near-impossible for UK applicants to get them these days (unless they’re reserved for UK citizens) because there’s been this huge influx of Ivy-league students from the US fleeing Trumpism, with glowing letters of recommendation. If this goes on, the US is going to really feel the effects of brain drain.

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      9 hours ago

      the US is going to really feel the effects of brain drain.

      Seems they don’t need them anyway, I mean a lawyer in charge of Health and wtf in charge of Education etc

    • m3t00🌎🇺🇦@lemmy.worldM
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      19 hours ago

      grandson went to school somewhere in Wales. finance i think. he’s talking about no jobs and coming back here. if i was his age i’d get into air/land drones, like ukraine. good with electronics. future is there if we can manage.

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        9 hours ago

        Quite depressingly, the weapons/drones sector is one of the few fields that is still hiring large numbers of graduates. Not exactly what most people signed up for, but a lot of them feel that they don’t have a choice

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      1 day ago

      The collapse of the U.S. just makes the rat race feel even more real for everyone.

      There is already a large amount of qualified graduates across various fields from India and China. Now we’re adding a third sizable country’s worth of graduates to that.

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      The US ironically gets most of their smart people from brain drain/ immigrants.
      Except from the handful elite of Ivy league , their education isn’t great.