Classifying 'Education Hubs'

By Scott Jaschik. At international education meetings, representatives of various countries like to boast about how they have become higher ed hubs, or have built education cities, or have created education zones. Just as American states vow to create the next Silicon Valley or Research Triangle Park, and to become known as a place with top universities and the businesses they spawned, countries all over the world want buzz as the hot hub or the next hub.
But even as attendees at this week's Going Global (the British Council's main international education meeting) heard boasts from various hubs, a session here attempted to make some sense of all of the hubs, and to help educators understand which ones are real, and how hubs differ from one another. Read more...