native English cultures are disproportionately represented … in grant-making organizations, and within research institutions.
I’m not sure if this makes it better or worse, but I suspect that part of the explanation for this is less about linguistic ability and more about the combination of a) the heavy overrepresentation of Anglophone institutions on world’s top universities lists and b) the tendency of EA orgs to hire people very recently out of university and to bias heavily in doing so towards EAs who’ve come from top universities.
I wonder whether the focus on top universities in itself carries Anglophone bias.. most other countries don’t have a large disparity in talent-attraction between different universities. Instead, the talent is concentrated within universities in e.g. Honours programmes and by grades.
I think it’s hard for many other countries to a similar level of talent differential as many of the top students from those countries are at the top Anglophone universities
I’m not sure if this makes it better or worse, but I suspect that part of the explanation for this is less about linguistic ability and more about the combination of a) the heavy overrepresentation of Anglophone institutions on world’s top universities lists and b) the tendency of EA orgs to hire people very recently out of university and to bias heavily in doing so towards EAs who’ve come from top universities.
I wonder whether the focus on top universities in itself carries Anglophone bias.. most other countries don’t have a large disparity in talent-attraction between different universities. Instead, the talent is concentrated within universities in e.g. Honours programmes and by grades.
I think it’s hard for many other countries to a similar level of talent differential as many of the top students from those countries are at the top Anglophone universities
Top Anglophone universities are already quite small, and I find it hard to believe that the migration numbers are significant
I think that’s indeed one of the dynamics. Thanks for pointing it out! Not sure what to think of it yet, though...