IN 2011, Belgium went 541 days without a government. Yes, you read that right.

With a new minister and a merged ministry in place, expectations for our education system have never been greater. But the public needs to understand the huge task ahead.

Universal basic income and a four-day work week are among ideas that may make a better future.

LAST month, I was inspired after attending a forum on waqf. When I was a child, to me, the term waqf referred to a covered seating space in school where we’d wait for our parents to pick us up. My knowledge of waqf was then limited to the building of mosques or Qurans donated by well-wishing members of the public.

Young people will again be a factor in GE14. They, of course, have a lot at stake.

HAVING a background education in law, I did not think that my passion would be honed in a somewhat paradoxical manner – in a job that exposes me to the “law” or policies in education.

As education strives to keep up with new technologies and the 4th Industrial Revolution, we must not overlook the values that make us human.

To tackle the challenges faced by students, industry and academics, many innovative ideas are being introduced to improve the tertiary education ecosystem.

Artificial intelligence professors, social online learning and Netflix-style textbooks are just some of the changes students want to embrace – more so than their professors.

As students embark on the 2017/2018 academic year, the author reflects on his time at an Islamic university as well as the oldest English-speaking university in the world.

The best universities not only generate their own income, they do it very well.

Using the National Blue Ocean Strategy approach, school facilities are being improved through collaboration between schools, universities and industry.