This presentation was delivered at the joint HEA/UKCISA Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education Conference that took place at the University of Warwick on 16th and 17th June 2011.
This presentation investigates the changing trends of international human capital flow from the perspective of foreign-trained PhD Chinese in America Britain and Australia by a comparative research method. A mixed combination of methods of document analysis focus group and interviews are conducted to explain the reasons that foreign-trained Chinese talents choose to stay abroad instead of returning back and the factors influencing their decision. Moreover factors of demographic characteristics (such as discipline gender age and year of working experience etc.) are also taken into consideration. Besides similarities and differences of attitude amongst foreign-trained PhD Chinese in three “importer” countries are widely discussed.
