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BBC Monitoring
Russia's science brain drain slows but not helped by
poor wages
Source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moscow, in Russian 13 Nov 01
At the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences yesterday chief scientific secretary Nikolay Plate stated that the "brain drain" that continued from the beginning to the end of the 90s has been reduced this year while, at the same time, the influx of graduates from higher educational establishments into science has increased considerably.
However, the problem of the "brain drain" is still far from being finally solved. Thus, according to Plate, more than 50 per cent of those completing postgraduate studies stay on to work at a Russian Academy of Sciences institution but after two to three years some 40 per cent of them leave because of low wages. For instance, even state scientific stipends amount to only R30 a month for talented young scientists. As a result the average age of Russian Academy of Sciences staffers has been steadily rising in recent years, the scientist noted.
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