摘要：AbstractThe advent of education hubs is heralded as the latest development in internationalization of higher education. The prevalence of education hubs is a token of the transformative forces at play in higher education the world over. The momentum with which education hubs have swept across the Gulf region and South Eastern Asia in particular is extraordinary and merits research consideration. India has wakened to the possibilities that follow on from education hubs—in forethought, if not quite in readiness. The Government of India agencies related to higher education and higher education institutions in the country have taken note of the emergence of education hubs, largely through policy deliberations and symposiums. The prevalence and expansion of education hubs in the aforesaid regions, not to mention the short order in which it has been achieved is of interest to India for self-evident reasons: the geographic proximity, similarities in socio-politico-economic landscape and shared colonial past. While the idea of taking on education hubs in the country is enticing enough, the question of its fittingness in the Indian higher educational milieu remains. It emerges that there are some crucial considerations: there are quite a few ways in which the country can benefit from education hubs. However, the less than channelled nature of higher education in the country and internationalization thereof necessitates a checklist of correctives to ensure that the steps forward lead to quality assurance and sustainability. In the face of missing preliminaries, the project of education hubs might be a step too far afield. Given the recentness of debate on education hubs, theoretical deliberation on the subject is all but absent in the country. The paper coheres analyses of the phenomenon of education hubs, its precipitous emergence and the issue of Indian higher education system's suitability in taking upon itself the prevalent culture of education hubs. The authors examine the subject from the standpoint of internationalization of higher education and set about it largely through descriptive and critical synthesis of such research as is available.
关键词：Globalization;Internationalization of higher education;Cross border higher education;Indian higher education institutions;Education hubs;National Knowledge Commission;Knowledge economy Global rankings: “The Blind Men and the Elephant”
