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TimesLive writes that a brain drain that would hollow out SA’s top tertiary educational institutions could be looming as panicked academics look for jobs overseas.
The impending "mass exodus" looms as the stalemate between university managements and the student protesters continues. According to one group of academics, most of their colleagues are afraid to speak out against the current student anarchy and violence and are secretly looking for employment at more stable institutions elsewhere. But for the Wits Black Academics Caucus, the current situation is a battle to be fought, not fled from. Also, the president of the Academic Staff Association at Wits, David Hornsby, does not foresee a brain drain. Yet, Achille Mbembe, a professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, said the haemorrhaging of academics will become structural and not just episodic.
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