Why Are So Many Scholars Choosing to Leave?
Translated from Malay and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- The article examines why highly skilled people leave after organizations and countries invest heavily in their education and training.
- It frames the loss as a failure to retain talent whose expertise, potential and direction are no longer adequately supported.
The Malay proverb “berniaga buluh kasap, hujung hilang pangkal lesap” describes a large investment that fails to produce a return. In talent management, it captures what happens when organizations and countries spend heavily to educate, train and develop human capital, only to lose the people they invested in.
Highly skilled individuals eventually choose to migrate because they feel their expertise, potential and direction are not being retained or adequately supported. The result is a loss for the institutions and countries that helped develop them.
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Originally published by Utusan Malaysia in Malay. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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