Varsities in the region don’t make the cut for various reasons, among them the brain drain, high dropout rates and the lack of full-time academics.
Nobel prizes can prompt uncomfortable soul-searching at universities in Latin America, which has produced relatively few winners in the sciences – a symptom, experts say, of the region’s struggles in higher education.
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