The ever-shifting world

Our continuing survival in an ever changing world rests on our ability to adapt and develop new approaches. In particular, education must reposition itself to address pressing demands and challenges of a new world order. Charles Darwin was clearly ahead of his time with his discovery of the principle of the survival of the fittest.

It is a principle relevant then as it is today. Undoubtedly, education is a facilitator in the quest for a transition from one epoch to the other. And therefore education cannot afford to be static. If yesterday the mere acquisition of a Cambridge certificate or university degree was enough to land one a place in the government’s payroll or private sector, today the goal posts have shifted.