Brain drain costs Ireland ,E3m. a year

THE "brain drain" costs
Ireland £.3 million annually and there is an annual loss of about 60 per cent of Irish male graduates, including scientists and technologists.
This point is made in a paper by Prof. Richard Lynn, published by the Economic and Social Research Institute. who suggests that the Irish universities may be acting as a kind of siphon through which a sub stantial proportion, the country's most able young people are 'drained out of Ireland.
He says: "The brain drain appears to be due partly to our producing more graduates than there is demand for in Ireland and partly to our producing graduates of the wrong kind. Irish industry does not, at the moment, take much interest in graduates."
He cites medicine as one example of a subject where there is excessive provision of graduates in relation to Ireland's needs.
In the meantime. agitation is being continued in Limerick to obtain a university for the city, The announcement by the Minister for Education, Mr.
• Lenihan, of capital funds to establish a "third-level educational institution" in Limerick, has not satisfied local people who take it as indicating a college of higher technology.