MEKNES ENGLISH CORNER

1.Lack of job opportunities in the home-country.

2.Lack of research facilities, materials, funding and support.

3.Absence of opportunities to do more studies-postgraduate studies.

4.Low salaries in the home-country as opposed to higher salaries in the host countries.

5.Comfortable working conditions in developed countries.

6.Job stress, length of working time in the home land.

7.Lack of freedom and human rights in some countries.

8.More opportunities of free speech in the receiving countries.

9.Wars, conflicts, geographic conditions push people away as well-Iraq, Afghanistan

10.Thinking of securing a better future for ones’ family and kids pushes some professionals to emigration.

11.Gaining more experience and skill in the developed countries.

B-THE EFFECTS OF “BRAIN DRAIN”

1.The home-country becomes empty of professionals.

2.Poor social services like education and health care due to lack of professionals.

3.The country always relies on foreign assistance and help.

4.The home country always remains underdeveloped because there no engineers and technicians who can develop its economy.

5.Loss of large amounts of money in the education of these people who emigrate.

C-SOME SOLUTIONS

1.Encouraging these expatriates to return home by providing better salaries.

2.Providing relevant and good- salary jobs to professionals.

3.Making the working conditions better and relaxing.

4.Allowing more freedom of speech and human rights.

5.Using “virtual participation” in the development of the home country if these professionals refuse to return home: This means they can stay in the country in which they are now; but at the same time they can participate to the development of their country through the use of technology (the internet), they can help by their ideas, training, research …..