What a change for Salim. From living 21 years in Kuala Lumpur as a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, he is now resettled in Utica, upper New York State – about 390km from the Big Apple.

For this year’s final piece, I would like to look at the future of our education system and prompt some questions we should be asking ourselves for 2019 and beyond.

Now, if there's one group of people in society the media love to highlight (aside from politicians), it's educators.

All around the world and everywhere around us, artificial intelligence is making the world a better, more efficient place.

The culture in Malaysia is great but there are many more good elements it can absorb.

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.