Tertiary scholarship schemes as institutionalised migration of highly skilled labour. The mixed evidence of development effectiveness from the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/26482789:_____/18:N0000059 RIV/48546054:_____/18:N0000123

Result on the web

<a href="https://mv.iir.cz/article/view/1584" target="_blank" >https://mv.iir.cz/article/view/1584</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32422/mv.1584" target="_blank" >10.32422/mv.1584</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tertiary scholarship schemes as institutionalised migration of highly skilled labour. The mixed evidence of development effectiveness from the Czech Republic

Original language description

Providing scholarships has become an integral part of the global higher education and so has research on its impacts. This article examines the tertiary scholarship scheme of the Czech government for providing scholarships to students from the global South as a part of its development cooperation programme with a double goal. Firstly, it examines the programmes development effectiveness from the perspective of migration studies, and secondly, it investigates the underlying motivation factors which influence the students decisions on where they will stay after their studies. A survey among students and graduates of the scheme was triangulated with quantitative data obtained from official sources. The results show a mean values of 45 percent for brain gain, meaning that almost half of the graduates do return back home after their studies, yet this situation is aggravated by a significant share of brain waste. The major factors that influence students migration decisions were established to be economic

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mezinárodní vztahy

ISSN

0323-1844

e-ISSN

0323-1844

Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

5-19

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85064345709