Brain Drain in Tunisia: 6,000 Engineers Leave the Country Every Year
The Dean of Tunisian Engineers, Mohsen Ghrissi, explained that 6,000 engineers leave Tunisia each year, indicating that the total number of emigrated engineers has reached around 45,000 out of 110,000 registered engineers. In a statement to Mosaïque, the Dean of Engineers described this number as "frightening", adding that Tunisian engineering skills are highly sought after by European countries, Canada, and some Asian countries. The speaker emphasized that the real danger lies in the emigration of engineers from the public sector and public enterprises, citing SONEDE (National Company for Water Exploitation and Distribution) as an example. The Dean of Tunisian Engineers specified that low salaries are one of the main causes of this exodus. He stated that it is "unacceptable to offer salaries ranging from 600 to 700 dinars to a young engineer, or for them to manage projects worth millions of dinars while only earning 1,500 dinars". Ghrissi called on the President of the Republic to enact a law to set a reference salary list for the engineering profession, stating: "Tunisia trains engineering skills and gives them away as a gift to other countries for them to benefit from their expertise."
