Too many Middle East universities are failing their students – The National

Too many Middle East universities are failing their students – The National

Every year, Egypt trains about 7,000 doctors. If they practice in the country, they can expect to be paid on average $200 a month. In Germany, a specialist is paid more than $6,000. In the US, plastic surgeons can earn almost $50,000. The discrepancy between working at home and abroad is a similar story for many other disciplines, particularly technical ones.

In the face of such discrepancies, there is mounting evidence that parts of the Middle East might be training a lot of highly qualified young professionals, only for many of them to leave. In some places, the problem is critical. According to data gathered by Arab Barometer, between 2020 and 2021 almost half of Lebanon's citizens wanted to leave for better prospects abroad. Between ages 18 and 29, it rose to 63 per cent.