71.500 University Graduates have left Algeria for brighter job prospects overseas

According to Mr Ahmed Guessoum who is a teacher- researcher at the USTHB University of Bab – Ezzouar in Algiers, 71.500 Algerian university graduates left Algeria between 1994 and 2006.

• Taking the floor during a conference in the central city of Médéa held under the theme: “How to curb the Algerian brain drain”, the researcher indicated that this phenomenon had caused huge financial losses to Algeria to the tune of 40 billion dollars.
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• The United Kingdom, France, Canada and the United States are among the main countries which have attracted the national intellectual elite.
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• Citing a report drafted recently by the national economic and social council (CNES), Mr Ahmed Guessoum asserted than over 10 thousand doctors had left Algeria during this period to settle essentially in France.
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• This massive brain drain was prompted by the degradation of the security situation, the absence of a climate propitious to research and training of elites and the lack of reliable outlets for university graduates, he said.