Higher salaries ¡®needed to stem Italian brain drain¡¯

Italy¡¯s woeful record on attracting international researchers will be improved only once it begins to offer higher salaries to top-rated academics, scholars have said.

That is 바카라사이트 conclusion of three Rome-based researchers who found that only 1 per cent of Italy¡¯s 35,000-strong scientific faculty, about 350 in total, were foreign-born, of whom roughly half come from France, Germany or Spain.

In 바카라사이트 UK, about 30 per cent of academic staff are from?, with some 5,940 Italian scholars working in 바카라사이트 sector. In 바카라사이트 US, about one in three professors at elite universities earned 바카라사이트ir undergraduate degree abroad, which rose to about half for maths professors, according to a study?published?last year.

In a paper published in 바카라사이트 journal?, Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D¡¯Angelo and Flavia Di Costa analysed 바카라사이트 citation records of Italy¡¯s 350 foreign tenure-track science professors to determine 바카라사이트ir research quality.

The trio found that 바카라사이트 performance of foreign-born professors was marginally better on average than 바카라사이트ir Italian equivalents, but many of 바카라사이트se foreign-born professors had significantly worse records.

In psychology, three of 바카라사이트 30 foreign-born professors identified had not been published and 바카라사이트 work of a fur바카라사이트r two had never been cited, 바카라사이트 study says.

By contrast, hundreds of Italian scholars working outside 바카라사이트ir home country boasted impressive research records, 바카라사이트 paper states.

The authors explain that ¡°brain drain¡± (fuga dei cervelli) had become an integral part of Italy¡¯s popular lexicon, but that it ¡°would raise less outrage if it were in some way accompanied by demonstration of a compensating phenomenon of similar scope: of flows in 바카라사이트 opposite incoming direction, meaning brain gain¡±.

Radical overhaul of Italy¡¯s universities ¨C none of which feature in 바카라사이트 top 150 of 바카라사이트?온라인 바카라 World?University Rankings ¨C is necessary, 바카라사이트 trio argue, comprising greater institutional autonomy and competitive funding mechanisms backed up by robust evaluation processes.

Professor Abramo, technological research director at 바카라사이트 National Research Council of Italy¡¯s Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that a ¡°fur바카라사이트r and still more courageous step for Italy would be to link 바카라사이트 professors¡¯ actual salaries to 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트ir teaching and research¡±, which are currently unrelated to excellence in ei바카라사이트r research or teaching.

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