Brain drain

The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or richer countries.

Vocabulary

Immigration: is the fact or process of people coming into a country in order to live and work there.

Better pay: receiving a lot of money from the work

Life conditions: a person’s material and immaterial circumstances of life.

Push factors: are those that encourage a population to leave its home (to another area or place).

Pull factors: is used to describe factors that attract people to a country, region, religion, etc.

Homesick: unhappy or depressed at being away from home and family (longing from home).

Abroad: beyond the boundaries of one’s country

Funds: are amounts of money that are available to be spent

Skilled: having enough ability, knowledge to be able to do something well.

Collocations

 

Collocations	Meaning
Money transfers:	MoneyGram is the largest provider of money transfers in the world.
Job opportunities	we also wanted to help to provide job opportunities for trainees
Brain gain:	we’re moving from brain drain to brain gain
Fulfil a dream:	Winning an exciting set of tickets can fulfil a dream.

Phrasal verbs

 

Phrasal verbs	Meaning
Get rid of:	throw away
Figure out:	understand
Set up:	Establish, start.
Look up:	search for
Put off:	postpone/delay
Check in:	register

NOTE: brain drain problems refer to the situation where a country loses its best workers.

Conclusion

Brain drain occurs when people go out and settle abroad for their jobs, or they go abroad for higher studies. After having finished their studies, they settle over there and do not return.