Academics fear new Brexit a brain exit after referendum vote

June 24, 2016 15:10

A new form of Brexit -- a brain exit -- could hit Britain's universities and scientific community following the referendum vote to leave the European Union, academics have warned.Professor Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chair psychological medicine at King's College London, joked that he wanted "a one-way flight to Zurich please'.

And, while he stressed this had been meant as a "gag', he told The Independent in an email there was serious concern that academics from other European Union countries might decide to leave the UK. Read more

PS. Been there, done that. In India it has been called Brain Drain.

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