The continuing relocation of university lecturers abroad for greener pastures is not only threatening university education but also depleting the large pool of brains necessary to drive development in the country.
This new challenge is one of the problems that confront the economy as necessary skilled manpower to manage different sectors in the future may end up poorly educated for the task given that lecturers are leaving the Ivory tower in droves. This trend had started in the 1980s, when the country began it’s precipitous economic descent.
