> Is this only a US and European problem? when I was in college in the oughts their was a popular trend in Physics PhDs to move to china following there Grad p

> Is this only a US and European problem? when I was in college in the oughts their was a popular trend in Physics PhDs to move to china following there Grad program as China provided a block grant to them to start a new lab. I don't know the trend there. In biology there was a trend in the late 2000's of Singapore recruiting professors to come over. Most of them ended up moving back west, saying that they couldn't find students that could work independently. > The pattern whereby professors have to apply for small grants continuously to keep a lab funded and operated is an inordinate waste of time vs. a block grant with periodic evaluation. The block grant with periodic evaluation is exactly how Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the NIH intramural researchers work.