Brain Waste & Brain Drain: As Reflected in the Lives of Croatian University Students
Brain Waste & Brain Drain: As Reflected in the Lives of Croatian University Students

Summary/Abstract: The present paper systemizes the experience of the author as a Fulbright professor at the University of Zagreb. It analyzes the society in transition, in an attempt to include the voices of the future leadership class, the youth of Croatia. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2004, on 400 students from four faculties at the University of Zagreb. The study revealed that the problems that young people face in this transition to adulthood are a function of problems in education, as well as in the economy. For that reason, programs that create an educated, open-minded leadership class among the next generation of youth are the best way to secure world peace, democratic nation building, a strong economy, and thereby protect against brain waste and brain drain and a scientific diaspora.

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