CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Badikyan, Tamara |
|---|---|
| Title | Educational migration from Armenia: a case study of a group of OSF and DAAD beneficiaries |
| Summary | The study addresses the present trends of educational migration from Armenia. The research scope includes only a segment of Armenian educational transmigrants that were recruited by two international organizations operating in the country, namely Open Society Foundations (OSF) and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The transmigrants are closer investigated in terms of the following specific characteristics: the motivations guiding the studied group of educational transmigrants to go abroad for education; the rates of return versus the rates of staying in the country of study or moving forward to another country, and, finally, the efficiency of the knowledge transfer network created by them. Based on the case study, the research tries to examine the impact of the skilled human capital outflows on Armenia by using the concepts of brain drain, brain gain, and brain circulation. Although the two groups under study— DAAD and OSF beneficiaries— reflect differences with regard to some patterns and outcomes focused by the research, such as stay rate in the country of foreign education, the general tenor reveals mainly either brain drain or a poorly developed brain circulation. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Matejskova, Tatiana |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/badikyan_tamara.pdf |
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