Scholarship holders abroad: returnees in the academic community in Serbia
Abstract
This paper deals with our highly educated professionals who studied abroad as scholarship holders at post-academic studies and then returned and found employment in Serbia. The aim of this paper is to examine how this group of returnees employed at faculties and scientifc institutes in Serbia assess their experience of studying abroad. The assessments of the returnees were gathered through a quesstionaire. Tese assessments were on the extent to which the returnees felt their education abroad influenced their employment in Serbia, the opportunies to apply the acquired knowledge and to participate in decision-making at the workplace, and, fnally, on how different they felt from their colleagues who acquired all their education and work experience in their own country. To better understand the situation of returnees, a special questionnaire also gathered the
Keywords: highly educated professionals, scholarship holders, migration, returnees, academic communityassessments of their colleagues on these issues.
References
Bodrožić, Z. (2014). The Return of Highly-skilled Migrants to Serbia. Psihološka istraživanja vol. 7(1), 55‒75. [In Serbian]
Bourdieu, P. (1988). Homo Academicus. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Europa 2020 strategy. (2010). Retrieved from:https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/european-semester/framework/europe-2020-strategy_en
Filipović, J. (2012). Management of a Diaspora Virtual University as a Complex Organization: Serbian Diaspora Virtual University: An Emerging Leadership of a Nation. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany.
Grečić, V. (2005). Knowledge management: a new strategy for “using minds” from the diaspora. In Business intelligence: the basic success of management in global terms 187‒210. [In Serbian]
King, R. (2000). Generalizations from the history of return migration. In B. Ghosh (Ed.), Return migration: Journey of hope and despair? (pp. 7-55). Geneva: UN & IOM.
Krnjaić, Z. (2002). Intellectual Gifedness in young People. Beograd: Institut za psihologiju. [In Serbian]
Jöns, H. (2009). ‘Brain circulation’ and transnational knowledge networks: studying longterm effects of academic mobility to Germany, 1954–2000. Global networks vol. 9(3), 315‒338.
Lin, X.(2010). The diaspora solution to innovation capacity development: Immigrantentrepreneurs in the contemporary world. Tunderbird International Business Review, 52(2), 123–136.
Lee, J., Kim, D. (2010). Brain gain or brain circulation? U.S. doctoral recipients returning to South Korea. Higher education vol. 59(5): 627‒643.
OECD (2008).The Global Competition for Talent: Mobility of the Highly Skilled. Paris: OECD.
Predojević-Despić, J. (2017). Who has Lef and Who Would Return: Differences between Serbian Highly Educated Emigrants in the USA and Canada. In M. Bobić & S. Janković (Eds.), Towards Understanding of Contemporary Migration: Causes, Consequences, Policies, Reflections (pp. 83‒107). Belgrade: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. [In Serbian]
Pudar, D., Krstić, G.and Radovanović, N. (2015). Studying Abroad and Coming Back to Serbia. Beograd: Institut ekonomskih nauka. [In Serbian]
Research for innovation. (2016). Strategy of Scientifc and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia for the period 2016-2020. Beograd: Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja Republike Srbije [In Serbian]
Sternberg, R. J. (1991). To the threefold theory of human intelligence. Psihologija, 3-4, 127‒166.
The Erasmus Impact Study. Luxembourg: Publications Ofce of the European Union. (2014). Retrieved from:http://ec.europa.eu/education/library/study/2014/erasmusimpact_en.pdf
Vasojević, N. and Filipović, M. (2017). Medical students, benefciaries of the state scholarships of the Republic of Serbia, and their education in the 21st century: The possibility of improvement. Sociologija vol. 59(2), 189‒205, doi.org/10.2298/ SOC1702189V. [In Serbian]
Vasojević, N., Kirin, S. and Marković, P. (2017). Research on scholarships holders who studied abroad and returned to Serbia. Management: Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies vol. 22(2). DOI: 10.7595/management.fon.2017.0020. [In Serbian]
World Economic Forum (2016). The global competitiveness report 2015-2016, World economic forum Geneva Retrieved from: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/gcr/2015-2016/SRB.pdf
Čikić, Ј, and Stojišin, S. (2017). Daily commuting of female population in Vojvodina, Sociološki pregled vol. 51(2), 236‒254, doi:10.5937/socpreg1702236C. [In Serbian]