Doctoral brain drain from Czech Academia
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Efficiency and Responsibility in Education 2015 |
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| Field | Applied statistics, operation research |
| Keywords | professional doctorates; z-test; DOKTORANDI 2014 survey; doctoral studies; ANOVA |
| Description | The aim of this paper is to examine determinants of Czech doctoral students’ brain drain from academia and to analyse opinions and attitudes of doctoral students who do not intend to stay in academia. We used a unique dataset based on the survey DOKTORANDI 2014 which was carried out in 26 higher education institutions in the Czech Republic. We have found that more than 25% of students intend to leave academia. This means a huge waste of scarce resources in terms of both public finance and human capital. The results show that 54% of leaving students want to exit academia because of exogenous factors, especially financial problems. The original role of doctoral studies appears to be substantially weakened, which could translate into the future labour market problems. |
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