A study by graduate student Emma Talbott from UBC’s Okanagan campus is looking at how many graduates stay in the region and are able to find employment in their field after completing their studies.
“‘When I graduate, I have to leave the city,’ is what a lot of (my classmates) tell me,” Talbott said. “I want to find out if they actually left. I suspect more people are sticking around, but not necessarily in their field of education.”
Talbott is working with Carlos Teixeira, an associate professor of human geography in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. Teixeira says while the arrival of UBC in the Okanagan in 2005 started a new era of knowledge for the Valley, the challenge is figuring out how to keep those young minds in the Okanagan.
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