Education hubs are the latest improvement within the overseas better schooling panorama. international locations, zones and towns are attempting to place themselves as reputed centres for larger schooling and research. 

But given greater education’s present preoccupation with competitiveness, branding, and monetary  advantages are schooling hubs in basic terms a fad, a branding workout, or are they a tremendous innovation helpful of great funding and attention?  This ebook attempts to reply to the query via a scientific and comparative research of the rationales, actors, guidelines, plans and accomplishments for 6 critical nation point schooling hubs - United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Botswana .

The in-depth case experiences indicates that "one measurement doesn't healthy all". various elements force nations to organize and place themselves as an schooling hub. They comprise source of revenue iteration, delicate strength, modernization of family tertiary schooling quarter, fiscal competitiveness, desire for knowledgeable workforce, and most significantly a wish to movement in the direction of an information or carrier established economic system. according to those assorted motivations, 3 sorts of schooling hubs are being constructed: the scholar hub, expertise hub, and knowledge/innovation hub.

Scholars, coverage makers, pros, scholars and senior choice makers from schooling, economics, geography, public coverage, exchange, migration will locate that this booklet demanding situations a few assumptions approximately crossborder schooling and gives new insights and information.