This is according to a survey conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics for the National R&D Council at the Ministry of Science. Minister of Science Perry: The phenomenon is on the verge of stopping
A review conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics for the National R&D Council at the Ministry of Science shows that in 2013, approximately 5% of Israeli academics stayed abroad for three years or more - this is a slowing trend of the phenomenon compared to previous years. Moreover, the survey shows that close to 6% of those staying returned to Israel in the last year, twice the rate of those returning in previous years. To deal with this phenomenon, the Ministry of Science is establishing a National Fund for Engineering that will provide incentives for Israelis with PhDs in the field to return to Israel.
However, the review also reveals worrying data regarding the profile of those staying. Among those with a third degree in the fields of exact sciences and engineering, the percentage staying abroad for three years or more is 14% - 3.7 times the rate among those with a third degree in the social sciences and the humanities, which is about 4%. The phenomenon is particularly serious among those with a degree in mathematics, about 22% of whom stay abroad, in computer science where the rate is about 18%, and in those with a PhD in engineering and architecture, 14%.
According to the Minister of Science, Technology and Space Yaakov Perry, "Given the high rate of Ph.D. holders in the fields of engineering, we have established a 150 million NIS national engineering fund at the Ministry of Science that will create jobs and incentives to return to Israel and we hope to see an improvement in the coming years. In general, the data show the beginning of a trend of containment and return of academic Israelis staying abroad."
The review examined the proportion of Israelis who had stayed abroad as of 2013 for at least three years among those who received an academic degree in Israel between 1987 and 2007. The review was based on administrative files of degree recipients in Israel which were accepted for the data of exits and entries to the country.
According to the review, the proportion of Israelis staying abroad is particularly high among those with a third degree (10.4% of them), a rate that remains stable compared to 2011. In contrast, the proportion of first and second degree holders staying abroad is 4.7% and 4.2% respectively. After there was a gradual increase between 2010 and 2012 in the percentage of people staying abroad, these percentages remained stable in 2013, which indicates the beginning of a slowing trend of the phenomenon.
Examining the academic subjects of those who stay, it appears that the proportion of graduates in the field of physical sciences of all degrees who stay abroad is particularly high - among 7.982 recipients of degrees (first, second and third), about 10.4% stayed abroad in 2013, and thus 9.6% of those with the degrees in the biological sciences and 9.7% of those with degrees in mathematics, statistics and computer science. Another interesting statistic is that more than 22% of the recipients of the bachelor's degree in music stay abroad. Conversely, the lowest rate is for graduates with degrees in education and teaching training (1.8%).
"The data show that the phenomenon is particularly strong among those with degrees in the fields of exact sciences, medicine and the arts - it is easier for those with these degrees to transfer their knowledge abroad, compared to professions such as law and teaching, where the knowledge and skills are more specific to the location," says the chairman of the council National Institute for R&D at the Ministry of Science, Prof. (resp.) Yitzhak Ben-Israel.
In a cross-section by sex, it appears that as of 2013, the proportion of men (5.8%) who stayed abroad is 1.4 times higher than the proportion of women (4.2%) among the recipients of degrees in all fields.
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Apparently there is no problem with the data, they are around 15% and the trend is to decrease, but there is a real problem with the research and standards budgets in Israel and the government needs to act quickly to prevent the situation from worsening, within a few years of this crisis this could jump to 25% and it all depends on the vigilance and initiative of the Ministry of Science .
After the hoof of returning academics who, after they returned, it turned out that there was no budget to fulfill the promises, which was in the news about two years ago (hoof to us, poor those who were personally harmed), those who return are so stupid that it is better to stay abroad.
This is a healthy situation, I do not find any anomaly here.