Academics Propose Ways to Rebuild Iraqi Higher Education

A number of Iraqi-American academics meeting over the weekend for a conference on how to rebuild Iraq's battered higher-education system criticized the Iraqi government's plan to send thousands of students abroad annually, saying it would lead to a "brain drain" of a new generation of the nation's top talent.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has proposed spending a portion of Iraq's oil wealth to send 10,000 students

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