March 27, 2009

U.S. Colleges Can Help Rebuild Iraqi Higher Education, Academics Say

By KARIN FISCHER

A number of Iraqi-American academics, meeting this month for a conference on how to rebuild Iraq's battered higher-education system, said the Iraqi government's plan to send thousands of students abroad annually 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 abroad to Britain, the United States, and elsewhere each year for the next five years to earn

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