Botswana country hub: Africa's first education hub

Abstract

This chapter on emerging hubs provides brief profiles of Korea, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and Bahrain. These four countries have all expressed their aspirations to be an education hub, but, for different reasons, they have not yet completely realized their goal. It is still too early to determine whether these are serious endeavors with the requisite policies, actors, and investments in place or whether they are part of a major marketing and branding campaign to attract more international students. Information on concrete plans is difficult to obtain in spite of rather ambitious plans. The chapter looks at the efforts to date of each country and tries to determine whether their actions match their intentions and whether being an education hub is rhetoric or reality.