A brief view on Brain Drain in the Fiji Islands

3. • A loss of trained
professional personnel to
another company, nation,
etc, that offers greater
opportunities.
• The movement of
intellectuals from one
country to another. Where
the pay and job
opportunities are better.
”Where there is a good
education system, there
will always be a brain
drain.”
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by
Richard A. Spears. Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.

4. • In every country there is a backbone, a
team of brilliant people who with their
ideology, creativity and mind-blowing
suggestion helps to develop a nation.
• What happen if there is a lack of
number of these skilled expert in the
country, will the nation ever become
developed…

5. • Fiji is trying so hard to be a
developed nation
• With excessive brain drain, these will
take a very long time to happen.

6. •Other countries providing AID
for Fiji; like scholarship, road &
hospital upgrading., etc
•Greener •Political
pastures Instability
•More money since 1987 to
•Better living 2010

7. •944,720 (July
2009 est.)
•Brain drain
rate, 2010:
20% of the
population.
•Adapted from Bureau of Statistics, Fiji

8. AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALND PROFESSIONAL &
TECHNICAL
WORKERS:
ENGLAND
1) Engineers
UNITED STATES OF 2) Medical, Dental,
AMERICA Vet, Nurse related
workers
3) Architect
MALAYSIA 4) Accountant
5) Teachers
FIJI CANADA 6) Sports player
(rugby, golf, etc)
DUBAI 7) Army officers
OTHER
COUNTRIES

9. • Most migrants are highly skilled, and those
who replaced them are usually fresh
graduates with no work experience.
• Emigration has caused Fiji to lose a large stock
of its key skilled personnel, which must raise
serious concerns about the prospects for
increasing the speed or quality of economic
development.

10. • If Fiji is serious about riding the
creative and innovation wave, it
needs to give enough
opportunities for the young
creative minds to be nurtured
and provide incentives for those
in the field to get their projects
off the ground as funding is
critical for the development of
the creative and innovation
industry.
• The government should
implement programs that can
encourage their citizen that
there is also “green pastures” in
Fiji.

11. • There should be more grants for education in Fiji,
since foreign scholarship not only offer an
education but also work and citizenship in their
corresponding countries, thus leading to brain
drain.
• Fiji also need to shift to a higher gear if we want
to grow the industry and while luring talent is
great, we also have to look within and nurture our
talents from young since the future agenda of the
country involves creativity and innovation.