Learning Cape' Aspirations: the Idea of a Learning Region and the use of Indicators in a Middle Income Country

The Western Cape Province in South Africa aspires to being a learning province, called the Learning Cape. The Hot Topic locates developments historically, describes competing understandings of the Learning Cape, and analyses two strategies, which are illustrative of attempts to engage seriously with the concept. It challenges the PASCAL user community, who are mostly located in the advanced 'North', to think through how the ideas of the learning community/city/region flow out beyond the OECD club of nations, and what this means for all of us.