[Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?

[langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer)]

I was just reading an article in The Guardian about how there is a massive
brain drain in Africa, as African PhDs are hired away, leaving few people to
train the next generation, and taking highly skilled people out of various
African economies.  It is one thing to talk about competition in the global
economy and how wonderful it is that people from all over the world can come
and study in the United States.  But fairness in a global economy
presupposes a level playing field and in a world where universities with
endowments of billions are competing for talent with those with far fewer
financial resources, it is pretty easy to see who the winners and who the
losers are going to be in any global competition.

Mark