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What you are portraing is your exploitation of your countries education system for your own benefit. The NZ tax payer invested in yours for your future ROI into
by jhoechtl 7y ago
What you are portraing is your exploitation of your countries education system for your own benefit. The NZ tax payer invested in yours for your future ROI into NZ and you put this ROI in your sack.
- barry-cotter 7y agoThe possibility of migrating to richer countries causes greater investment in education. https://appam.confex.com/appam/2018/webprogram/Paper27374.html https://appam.confex.com/appam/2018/webprogram/Paper27374.ht... > Using a new administrative dataset combining the universe of permanent migrant departures from the Philippines with the universe of institution-level post-secondary enrollment and graduation, we show that enrollment and graduation in nursing programs increased in response to demand from abroad for nurses. The supply of nursing programs increased to accommodate this. The increase in nursing enrollment and graduation during the period was much larger than the increase in nurse migration and contributed to a brain gain
- redis_mlc 7y agoUh, that's the Philippines. Their economy runs on remittances, and the population is mostly under 18, so the government wants graduates to emigrate and send money home. They even have the OFW department to monitor treatment of their emigrant workers, and provide a parallel immigration office. Possibly the worst citation ever. :)
- seem_2211 7y agoAnd I'm not going to feel bad about it either!
- JshWright 7y agoIt definitely changes the "is it worth it" math though, so it's not as relevant to the original article.