Gus > Or is that you just "dream" it in America but work it out back home?
It's certainly becoming that way now. As you know, post-grad education was for years one of the UK's principal "invisible" exports and as result of which they were able to offer attractive positions in industry etc to the best international students. Clearly, the US did the same and, surely, will continue to do so. But there's no doubt in my mind that more and more foreign graduates will prefer to return to their countries of origin and more and more US graduates will seek employment elsewhere than in the US. There's nothing like people, especially the intelligentia, voting with their feet to give a wake-up call to any government that something is seriously wrong with its policies. And, in time, as the academic standards elsewhere match and then overtake that in the US, fewer and fewer students will come.
Unquestionably, the cost to the US, direct and indirect, of the Bush regime has been immeasurable. |
