Mexico Implements Program to Stop Brain Drain in Science and Technology teleSUR English
go to original December 24, 2014

Mexico is implementing a measure to encourage national researchers who are working abroad to prevent brain drain.

The Program for the Retention and Return, sponsored by Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), has invested more than 440 million pesos (more than US $30 million) to encourage researchers working abroad to come back and join research teams for higher education institutions in Mexico.

The three universities ranking highest among return destinations for Mexican scientists are the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with 49 returnees, followed by the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon with 47, and the Distinguished Autonomous University of Puebla and Veracruz University, both having welcomed the return of 35 Mexican nationals each among their ranks.

However, it has become difficult for Mexico to retain its brain power. According to El Universal, only 540 specialists were able to return to Mexico in the last seven years.

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