education - lecturers to debate migration
WORKERS, MAY 2005 ISSUE
Natfhe annual conference meets in Eastbourne at the end of May, a critical time for higher and further education with increasing concern that key departments in core subjects such as Chemistry cannot be sustained in Britain. In addition the union itself is contemplating its own future, with talks on a merger with the Association of University Teachers (AUT) under way.
The conference will also discuss a motion which deplores "the damaging effects of high skilled migration from developing countries to the UK which is further exacerbated by the market-led drives of Higher Education Institutions to recruit overseas students". The motion calls on the union to set up what is called a "Brain Drain" project to look at the implications in the sending and receiving countries.