The State has been witnessing a growing support from its academic diaspora towards its novel ‘brain gain’ programme. Over 200 scholars from across the globe have evinced interest in partnering with higher education institutions as short-term teachers, part-time collaborators and co-supervisors in research.
Spearheaded by the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC), the programme aims at locating experts in various disciplines to create a network of academics of Keralite origin.
As many as 220 scholars representing different sectors of knowledge areas have currently registered in KSHEC’s brain gain portal. They include academics, IT, management and medical professionals from various places, including the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Japan, West Asia and Europe. While over a hundred registrants were engaged in science disciplines, the others represented arts and humanities, engineering, management and medicine.
