It is hard to believe Bahrain sought to become a global education hub as recently as 2006 & 2007. See, for example, this Observatory on Borderless Higher Education report released in January 2007: A fifth transnational hub for the Gulf: Bahrain announces plans to create a ‘Higher Education City’ Welcome to Bahrain, circa December 2011: [...]
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Bahrain redux
Posted in Bahrain, tagged Bahrain on December 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Great expectations UK-style: foreign students = export earnings (in an era of austerity)
Posted in export education, Foreign Students, service exports, UK on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Source: Universities UK (2011) Driving Economic Growth, London: Universities UK, 1 December; also see Chester, J., and Luzajic, J. (2011) ‘Time to recognise that universities have a central role in UK growth strategy,’ The Guardian, 1 December.
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