Savings in education: 3 pillars
Our most important winning card for the future are our youth, hence the importance of clear recommendations towards government and education policy.
Healthcare: From star to cash cow?
Lieven Annemans analyses the potential impact of budgetary restrictions in our healthcare system. He pleads for more quality-friendliness in the payment system if we want to maintain a solidary and internationally renowned healthcare system.
Reclaiming Happiness from Politics
Happiness is back, both in the sciences and in politics. While the economy is suffering from a systemic crisis, the time is ripe for an explicit happiness agenda that seeks to steer society consciously towards personal wellbeing.
Reclaiming Happiness from Politics
Happiness is back, both in the sciences and in politics. While the economy is suffering from a systemic crisis, the time is ripe for an explicit happiness agenda that seeks to steer society consciously towards personal wellbeing.
Working longer: a policy agenda from a Belgian perspective
All the political parties are talking about it. The Generation Pact wanted to realize it. But will we manage to create an age-friendly labor market? Marc De Vos pleads for a new Age Pact that must prepare our labor market for the imminent demographic changes.
Will we need to outsource care for the sick and elderly to foreigners?
In the short term, foreign nurses can help coping with the shortages of our white economy. In the long term we will need structural solutions, says Brieuc Van Damme.
Higher education: end the tuition-fee fetishism
Jean Hindriks and Laurent Hanseeuw counter the current fetishism that surrounds the university tuition-fees. They recall that universities are underfinanced and students with modest backgrounds are the first victims thereof. They plead for an open debate on the refinancing of higher education.
How to refinance our universities?
Since higher education has been decentralized in Belgium, public financing of universities in both communities has almost been frozen. Students’ coaching has been continuously scrapped for the last forty years; which certainly does not help the graduation rate.
Gifted children, unused potential
At the moment, the attention paid to the wasted talents that are the exceptionally gifted children who got through the stitches of the net increases slightly. However, it is still very likely that a large number of them will drop out somehow during the school year 2008-2009.
