Idea 500 of 500. Cluster 28: Coming home
A licence-to-practise service for returning professionals: the doctor's, nurse's, engineer's or accountant's foreign qualification recognised at home, paperwork, exams and all, for a fixed fee
The mechanism, from the book
The first one through pays the whole price, and everyone after walks through an open door. These are the doors.
Every idea in cluster 28 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Pick one profession, say doctors, and write down every step a doctor trained abroad must take to practise in Sri Lanka: which body registers them, which documents it wants, which exam, how long each step takes and what it costs. Check the list against the rules the registering body publishes, then offer it, with the paperwork done for them, to 3 doctors abroad who say they want to come home. How many finish is your proof.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan doctor, nurse, engineer or accountant working abroad who wants to come home and would pay a fixed fee not to lose a year learning the process alone.
- What leaves today
- A professional who cannot get permission to work at home stays abroad, and the country keeps paying to train people it then cannot take back.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
What the book adds
And a five hundred and first, which is not mine to write: the next five hundred, because this list is the country's.
In the book
- Ch. EightWhat It Costs to Go First
The first one through pays the whole price - Ch. SeventeenOne Building
Sri Lankans abroad given precise roles: sponsor, mentor, introduce
More from cluster 28
- 496A "first year back" service: the accountant, the school, the doctor, the driver, in a monthly fee
- 497Returnee co-working houses in Colombo and Kandy, so that the first year is not spent alone
- 498A returnee investment fund that takes twenty small stakes in this list, run by returnees
- 499The Sri Lanka House desk that meets the returning professional at the airport with a list of who wants to hire them
Idea 500 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.